Astoria
earliest edition we have, 1995 Guernica Editions, 1995 paperback 313 pages
Astoria is an original and powerful vision of the Great Migration, full of startling angels and unexpected daggers of truth. The narrator is a man deranged by history and grief. For him, the real capital of the world is a place called Astoria, the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother was a child in the 1920s. Now it is 1986, two years after her death. He has gone to teach literature at the University of Pa...
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