S A Traina: 2 books

A father-and-son memoir about a bookworm and a firefighter, a creature of contemplation and one of locomotion, the recollections of a child's journey from infancy to just before his wedding day set against an increasingly treacherous mountain climb. The theme is timeless: What's left for a father to tell and to give his son when that son has already become his own man?

The Imbecile is about a woman who believes her father’s death may have been a suicide.Salvius Chisciotte is an avid climber who dies scaling a mountain he’d summited many times. Isabella is his long estranged daughter. She hadn’t spoken to either parent in over a decade, and did not attend...