In Barcelona, a widowed Marine drifts through a Picasso museum because his wife's last request sent him there, searching for something he cannot name—until a stranger with a sketchbook sees him clearly.
In 1927 New York, a carriage driver watches a French actress play Roxane for a single night, and spends the rest of his life writing poems she will never read. Or so he believes.
In Provence, an aging hockey captain falls for a woman who has no idea who he is, then flies home to chase the only thing he ever wanted.
Three novellas about the moments that turn a life, and how completely an unexpected encounter can change one.
About The Author
Matteo Baiamonte is a New York–born writer of character-driven literary fiction shaped by memory, place, and the unexpected encounters that alter the course of a life. Raised in the analog world before the digital age, his fiction carries the sensibility of a generation for whom friendships were forged face-to-face, music became part of one's identity, and people could disappear from our lives without leaving an electronic trail behind.
Years spent living and traveling abroad have left their mark on his fiction and inspired another recurring theme: the displaced American, far from home and navigating unfamiliar places while carrying the memories, regrets, and unfinished business of another life. His stories move from the streets of New York to Barcelona, Paris, Provence, Rome, and beyond, using place not simply as a backdrop, but as a catalyst for reinvention and self-discovery.
Baiamonte's fiction blends nostalgia with themes of love, loss, regret, redemption, and second chances, with a particular fascination for ordinary people caught at extraordinary moments in their lives. His debut collection, Tales of the Butterfly, brings together three emotionally driven novellas spanning Barcelona, 1920s New York, France, and Canada.
Baiamonte writes under the Borough Lights Press imprint.
My Review
Three quick reads, novellas, three sweet love stories.
The first The Girl in The Picasso Museum was probably my favorite, I loved Reagan. This one is a beautiful love story, that ends with dealing with grief.
The second The Landau Letters is surprising in the way it wrapped around and ended up. As with all of these stories, we travel from North America to Europe. Such a gentle man, and the women in the poetry never knew.
The third A Captain's Fire because some of my family are big into hockey, I found this interesting, but the relationship between Moose, David and Alessia was very different, and in the end felt very incomplete.
I was able to read this book in a few hours and kept page turning for answers. Love stories!
I received this book through the Publisher Bright Lights Publishing, and was not required to give a positive review.
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