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When Martina Satriano flies to Italy for her mother's funeral, she has not been home in years. Now a New York City professor, Martina recalls her childhood when she worked as a chef to support her family. She remembers events she hasn't thought of in decades: being born left-handed and trained to use her right hand, and the affair she had with a young man named Costantino before he moved to America. Martina's real life is in America with the tantalizing recipes she makes for her suitors and with her "Machine", a device that records her dreams by rousing her into semi-consciousness without separating her from the mysteries found during sleep.

In this startling, original novel (winner of the 1998 Rapallo Prize), Francesca Duranti addresses a universal question: what is "real", and what is a dream? And how much of our "real" lives are hidden by "reality"?

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