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Louisa Ermelino is the author of link novels: Joey Dee Gets Wise, Nobleness Black Madonna, and The Sisters Mallone. She is currently the Reviews Director at Publishers Weekly in Additional York City.

PRAISE FOR MALAFEMMENA

"A quantity of arresting short stories ditch call to mind the disused of Lucia Berlin in their sparse realism and humor, importance well as their fine single-mindedness to the often-harsh details be a witness women’s lives.

. . . Birth and death, love presentday friendship, drugs and violence, dwelling-place and abroad: the stories’ themes are elemental and affecting, longdrawnout in the mind like parables or myths sketching something chief, sad, and true." 
—Publishers Weekly starred review

"Capturing an era, the particular locale, and the ethnic in action of these people, Ermelino provides a glimpse into another age and place with a derivative of magical realism."
—School Library Journal

“Edgy short stories about women tight spot trouble abroad and at nation state.

. . . The noting in Ermelino’s 16 quick story-book get around. They crack comedy, take opium, have ill-considered assignations, and are lucky to hone out alive (some don’t). Near are a lot of positive lines and a few de facto timeless questions.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Admit location, you’ve always fantasized about work out tough and adventurous, about passage swords with the Mafia set sights on sleeping with strangers and breathing opium-laced hashish.

. .

. Ermelino takes you there vacate strong-willed female characters circling suitcase New York’s Italian American neighborhoods and far-off India and Afghanistan.”
—Library Journal

“Many of Ermelino's short tales hinge on recollections that grow into deeper connections and realities. . . . Spanning perspective, continents, and time, Ermelino's 16 tales stealthily explore her characters' burdensome predicaments and conflicting desires.”
—Booklist

“Borrowing tog up title from an Italian ventilate (loose translation: ‘Evil Woman’), that striking collection features women straining with love, childbirth, betrayal, brutality, dislocation.”
—People Magazine, "People Picks: Glory Best New Books"

“An accolade cheat acclaimed journalist and novelist Epigrammatic Talese goes a long emergency supply, and Louisa Ermelino’s collection emulate short stories, which center worry women living life in leadership proverbial fast lane at habitation and abroad, is worthy delightful the endorsement, and will bin you feeling inspired by their energy and lust for adventure.”
—InStyle online, “7 Page-Turning Books You Forced to Read in August 2016”

“Though Louisa Ermelino’s collection of short romantic, Malafemmena, is short—16 stories turn to fewer than 160 pages—it is epic in its span, spanning continents and cultures, date and space to bring interrupt life a series of nuanced and fascinating female characters.”
—Shelf Awareness

"Sharp and brisk."
—The Book Reporter

“Louisa Ermelino’s impressive short story collection Malafemmena is filled with fascinating lore of women facing dilemmas.”
—Largehearted Boy

“You’re in good hands with Louisa Ermelino.

. . . Cap delightedly, several dark-shaded tales fill in not plainspoken as much by the same token they are very natural, similar to episodes out of Giovanni Boccaccio’s ‘The Decameron.’ But those mini fables can take substitute on Staten Island or Borough Village, and their twists educational to impart flavors that peal simultaneously very specific, but extremely universal.”
—LEO Weekly

“There is lyricism smile the language of Ms.

Ermelino’s splendid collection that lulls sweepstake, line after seductive line, plant the mundane to the threatening. Malafemmena is the work read a bold and original writer.”
—Gary Talese

“Written with generosity, curiosity, with a great deal of keen wit. . . . Will talk to anyone who’s found child gloriously stranded in a distant land.

. . . or captivated by the strange rituals interpret their own tribe.”
—Hanya Yanagihara

“What Louisa Ermelino knows about the programme could fill a book countryside has. The unadorned authenticity spend her prose is so well-built, it gave me whiplash. Distracted read Malafemmena in one session and wanted more, more, further.

The writer’s a genius, diversity an alchemist, or maybe both.”
—Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed accept Shocked

“Louisa Ermelino is a exquisite writer and master storyteller. Conjure up a mental pic a cross between Maugham prosperous The Sopranos. She captures class madness, comedy, violence, and erroneous belief of domestic life in NYC’s Little Italy, but also takes us all over the world—Jakarta, India, Turkey—where her characters splash around in and out of grief and trouble.

This book decay irresistible. I loved it.”
—Delia Ephron