M. F. Bloxam has lived in Sicily and the United States and is currently residing on New Hampshire's coastline. She is the author of prizewinning short fiction and creative nonfiction. A background in anthropology and museum work informs her writing.
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Historian Joan Severance has returned to the Sicily of her childhood, ostensibly to do research in the archives of the remote fortress town of Valparuta. In truth, her academic career lies in ruin behind her after being relieved of her teaching duties at ... SEE MORE