Bridge of Sighs: A Novella and Stories

Winner of the second annual Three Oaks Prize for fiction.

Magda Brummel, the protagonist of the novella, who is devastated by loss, has decided to take a trip to Italy. She is accompanied by a man whom she knows only casually, and their relationship is initially platonic. As the author takes Magda and Harry through stunningly evoked sacred and secular sites throughout Italy, we realize that, for Magda, the trip has become an increasingly urgent pilgrimage, a search for renewal, if not grace.

Paulette Roeske has published four books of poetry. An NEH and Fulbright Fellow, her fiction appeared in "Threepenny Review, Georgia Review, "and other publications.