A Midsummer Mystery
The Golden Tangerine
by Angela Ragusa
Published in 2022 by IFISS Press in English
Translation by William Woolf

Avaiable as a Paperback book ($8.99) or as a Kindle ePub (4.99).

Alessio is fourteen years old, chubby, and clumsy, and is incapable of seeing two inches from his nose without his glasses, he certainly doesn't look like a hero...quite the opposite! The only things he cares about is his beloved jazz music and staying as far away as possible from his insufferable older brother, Johnny the Perfect. But for him, everything changes when one sultry August night, crossing the park of the ancient asylum in Florence, he meets Lucia, a girl of his age who has fled from Somalia in search of a new life. To help her realize that dream, and help her save her brother Claudio who has fallen victim to a gang of criminals, Alessio will discover in himself a courage that he would never have believed he possessed. With the help of a clever little boy with a passion for 'racing worms', an old woman who is nothing short of weird but not at all silly, and (incredible but true!) Johnny the Perfect, the boy will be able to set aside the his fears, facing dangers of all kinds and going so far as to risk his life in an attempt to save his new friend.