01848cam a2200289 4500 499599393 TxAuBib 20210526120000.0 210408s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781609456665 PAP 16.00 1609456661 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib eng ita Naspini, Sacha, 1976- Nives [BOOK] / Sacha Naspini ; translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford. New York : Europa Editions, 2021. 128 pages ; 21 cm. Meet Nives: widow, Tuscan through-and-through, survivor. Nives has recently lost her husband of fifty years. She didn't cry when she found him dead in the pig pen, she didn't cry at the funeral, but now loneliness has set in. When she decides to bring her favorite chicken inside for company, she is shocked, confused, and a little bit guilty to discover that the chicken's company is a more than adequate replacement for her dead husband. But one day, Giacomina goes stiff in front of the tv. Unable to rouse the paralyzed chicken, Nives has no choice but to call the town veterinarian, Loriano Bottai, an old acquaintance of hers. What follows is a phone call that seems to last a lifetime, a phone call that becomes a novel. Their conversation veers from the chicken to the past--to the life they once shared, the secrets they never had the courage to reveal, wounds that never healed. 20210526. Widows Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Loneliness Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Tuscany (Italy) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Botsford, Clarissa, translator.