Robert Girardi was educated at Catholic schools in Europe and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recipient of the James Michener Fellowship in 1989.He lives in Washington, D.C.This is his first novel.
A remarkable achievement...Immensely engaging...part love story, part ghost story, always absorbing. --Los Angeles Times Book Review A fast, can't-put-it-down reading experience...a vibrant gumbo of ghosts and gypsies, lovers and others. --New Orleans Times-Picayune Readers have waited too long for Robert Girardi's peculiar mesmerizing genius. --Colin Harrison, author of Bodies Electric *.. . a first novel of astonishing accomplishment... Girardi drives his tale along with sensuous prose. --Publishers Weekly, starred review A remarkable achievement...Immensely engaging...part love story, part ghost story, always absorbing. --Los Angeles Times Book Review A fast, can't-put-it-down reading experience...a vibrant gumbo of ghosts and gypsies, lovers and others. --New Orleans Times-Picayune Readers have waited too long for Robert Girardi's peculiar mesmerizing genius. --Colin Harrison, author of Bodies Electric * ... a first novel of astonishing accomplishment... Girardi drives his tale along with sensuous prose. --Publishers Weekly, starred review