Things That Crash, Things That Fly
Things That Crash, Things That Fly
Authors & Illustrator
Author:
Scott
Gould
Third Place Award
Non-Fiction > Memoirs
Description
As a husband and wife plan an Italian vacation with friends—to visit her family’s Tuscan village—she makes a last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him when they return. And her bombshell includes a caveat. He isn’t allowed to breathe a word of it to their traveling companions. So begins Things That Crash, Things That Fly, the groundbreaking memoir from award-winning writer Scott Gould.
After the awkward vacation with his soon-to-be estranged wife in Serra, Italy, Gould embarks on another, longer journey—through heartbreak and anger, despair and discovery. When he wangles a fellowship to research the death of William Guilfoil, a WWII pilot who crashed in the hills near Serra, Gould sets his sights on clarity and closure in his ex-wife’s ancestral home. As his story and Guilfoil’s intertwine, Gould gathers the fragments of a fractured heart. With a brutal honesty tempered with surprising humor, he tells us how he stitches them back together.