“I spent the years you were absent discovering and cultivating the so-called truth of narrative, where whoever is writing dictates the rules.”

Across the thirteen experimental stories that constitute Marzia Grillo’s debut collection The Sun’s Point of View, real and imagined figures fight for secure understandings of a reality that is under a constant fog of instability. In the middle of a lake, a man proposes. The themes, protagonists, and events populating these enveloping works of creative autofiction play out in a nexus of overlapping scenes across the city and countryside of Grillo’s Rome. Through masterful, effervescent storytelling, moments like moving house, watching a sleeping child, and feeling the heat of the sun coalesce in The Sun’s Point of View to generate kaleidoscopic snapshots of intimate quotidian interactions.