In this decadent, deeply evocative novel, a young artist travels to
Rome to heal a broken heart, where she confronts loneliness and
intimacy, rage and desire: "Sensorial as hell . . . A stunningly cool
and stylish debut" (Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The
Sellout).
Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her
past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end
of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music,
art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets
color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers
the many facets of her life, drifting in and out of memory, following
her train of thought wherever it leads.
While climbing a hill near Trastevere, she meets John, an American expat
living a seemingly idyllic life. They are soon navigating an intriguing
connection, one that brings pain they both hold into the light.
As their intimacy deepens, Emilia starts to see herself anew, both as a
woman and as an artist. For the first time in her life, she confronts
the ways in which she's been letting her father's success as a musician
overshadow her own. Forced to reckon with both her origins and the
choices she's made, Emilia finds herself on a singular journey--and
transformed in ways she never expected.
Equal parts visceral and cerebral, Six Days in Rome is an ode to the
Eternal City, a celebration of art and creativity, and a meditation on
self-discovery.
