L'Air du Temps (1985)
In 1985, the shooting of Mr. Marfeo disrupts the quiet suburban neighborhood of Maple Bay and prompts thirteen-year-old Zinnia Zompa to reorganize everything she knows about her parents— their preoccupations, obsessions, and above all, their battles with each other. As her understanding of the world grows, Zinnia sees how the violence she witnesses is part of a larger pattern of domination, one that shadows the world far beyond her neighborhood, and her coming-of-age means reckoning with this darkness.
Diane Josefowicz is the author of a novel, Ready, Set, Oh (Flexible Press, 2022) and, with Jed Z. Buchwald, two histories of French Egyptology, The Zodiac of Paris (2010) and The Riddle of the Rosetta (2020), published by Princeton University Press. She serves as books editor at Necessary Fiction and associate fiction editor at West Trade Review. She lives in Providence, RI with her family.
