The Country of Marriage

With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America.   The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks at our relationships with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion, and gives voice to the emotions that lie unexplored and unexpressed beneath their seemingly placid surface.   In “Days with Cecilia,”