The Coming Of Fabrizze: A Novel (Black Squirrel Books) - Plot & Excerpts
said Augustine. “We marched from the mountains to the sea. We sailed after the sun. Twelve days, twelve days. Finally we landed and took the train. Six hundred miles to the west again. And then one morning Rossi was there. He put his arms around me. ‘He makes his own bread,’ he was saying. There were tears in his eyes. He had a surprise for me. My shovel was waiting. I cried like a baby. I was calling Fabrizze to help me. He was bringing water in a bucket to the labor gang. It was over for him, too, with his golden hair.” It was beginning. Fabrizze moved from water boy to laborer on the Great Northern Shore Railroad. Three nights a week he studied the language with an old railroad worker called Bassetti. They bought the newspaper and went through it page by page. Fabrizze never turned up without a bag of oranges for the old man. Toward the end of the summer Bassetti realized that his pupil had become his teacher. He pointed out that the oranges were losing their sweetness now that he gave nothing in return.
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