THE MARRIAGE OF ROSE CAMILLERI

Nineteen year old Rosie left behind a rustic village on the tiny Maltese island to seek her fortune in America. Now she is a baker in a Maltese café in Toronto, where a regular customer named Scotty flushes every time she pours his coffee. When Scotty musters the courage to ask her to the movies, she agrees, thinking a night out might ease her loneliness. T hen Rosie finds herself pregnant, and Scotty offers to marry her; she reluctantly accepts. This leaves her with a daunting challenge: learning to adore the kind, burdened man she had thought was just a fling.
Twenty five years later, the couple ha s faced every sort of problem, including those arising from complicated children, Rosie's wandering eye Scotty's attraction to criminality , and now their own mortality . By turns tender, funny, and poignant, The Marriage of Rose Camilleri is the story of two peop le who have to work at being their better selves in order to maintain a life together. “If life is anything,” Rosie concludes i t is learning to live with the person you are.”

ROBERT HOUGH, who has been praised by Publishers Weekly for his “exceptional narrative intuition,” has been published to rave reviews in fifteen territories around the world. His fiction has been compared by critics to that of Angela Carter and Peter Carey (The Times), Robertson Davies (USA Today), and Zola, Camus, and Calvino (The Globe and Mail). He lives in Toronto.