With truth, wit, and a masterful high style, Lombreglia captures a varied cast of quirky characters who, with awkwardness, humor, and sometimes grace, struggle with tensions between creativity and commercialism, technology and humanity, alienation and connection.
She expected a quiet place with a statue of the Virgin or a plaque recounting the miraculous event the trees had witnessed decades before, when a girl named Rose felt herself summoned down the path, a little crippled girl known far and wide for her special devotion to Our Lady—something along tho...