[…] When facing the Ionian Sea, the old people shook their heads like they did for magic tricks performed  by gypsies during the Saint Sebastian fair. Then turning their backs to it, they would glance wistfully, adoringly towards the Aspromonte Mountains. They wouldn’t come to the sea on their own accord because they were mountain … Continue reading Excerpts from the novel “La Maligredi”, by Gioacchino Criaco