The Minotaur at Calle Lanza

A “hauntingly effective” surrealist travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all ( Library Journal , starred review). Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family’s difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadi