La meccanica delle ragazze

Agostina Carbone is forty years old, lives in Naples, and drives a red Fiat Panda with a broken interior light. It's not a repairable problem: it's a reminder. It reminds her of the day Mattia Lamerge – the man of her life, or so she believes – ended their relationship with a phone call. Seven years later, a village funeral brings them back to the same old routine. Agostina prepares herself with the discipline of great occasions and great disasters, but the universe, as we know, has its own pace. In the space of a summer night, in a province that seems stuck in the same old world, under a sudden thunderstorm, what always happens will happen: the opposite of what was expected, but much more interesting. The Mechanics of Girls is a novel about the female mechanics and that thing we call love when in reality it's fear with a good reputation. It tells what happens when you stop waiting and finally start moving. Funny and merciless, it's a story that knows exactly where to hurt, but with a certain elegance. And a monkey wrench.