Diane Greco Josefowicz’s novel, L’air du Temps (1985), which is published by Regal House, will be available on March 12. Diane writes: “L’Air du Temps (1985) is set in the fictional suburb of Maple Bay. At the center of the story is a prickly, foul-mouthed, but mostly good-hearted teenager named Zinnia Zompa, whose life is upended when her family is implicated in the fatal shooting of a neighbor. Rhody fans of Ready, Set, Oh, which was named a 2022 Bookshelf Notable Indie, will feel right at home with this latest dispatch from Maple Bay while being introduced to a whole new set of characters. (And they are all characters.) As with my first novel, the historical context is carefully evoked, with plenty of atmospheric detail, from moon roofs to mixtapes; and women’s lives are front and center, linked up this time with intimations—which could be clearly sensed in the 1980s—of impending climate collapse brought on by unbraked consumerism and a cultural addiction to carbon-heavy luxuries on the cheap.”
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