My Bare Face - by Simona Cantelmi (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Sara, seven months pregnant; Tamila, sunny and caring; Valeria, a precarious journalist; and Betty, a photographer/waitress, are four thirty-year-olds racing towards forty, with variously intertwined lives, who see their "being a woman" change and must deal with the anxieties inherent to romantic feelings and their relationships with men. Each has a big heart and a baggage of suffering that does not prevent them from remaining open to love, friendship, and care for others. Because no matter how many tears those unmade-up eyes have already shed, these women will always be able to find their smile again and move on.

About the Author

Simona Cantelmi, from Bologna, journalist and writer, graduated in Modern Literature, with a thesis in History of Emilia Romagna in the Middle Ages, worked as an editor for the daily newspaper L'Informazione di Bologna - Il Domani and for several periodicals (attached to Il Giornale). She edited four entries in the Treccani Biographical Dictionary of Italians, published monographs and essays of a historical nature, short stories and the novels "Il Protector del Tempo" and "Io non mi trucco." In March 2026, the English edition of "Io non mi trucco" will be released for the Canadian market. Today she writes for the Corriere di Bologna, for the monthly insert of the Corriere della Sera "Vivi Bologna & Emilia Romagna" and for the magazine "Il Blasco Story", attached with "Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni" and Il Corriere della Sera.

Silvia Falsaperla is a graduate of University of Toronto. She has published poetry and prose in Canadian and American literary journals and anthologies. She has been one of the winners so far of four literary contests in Canada. She has read her work in international literary conferences and her poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. Her hybrid collection of poetry and short stories entitled The Garden of Kolymbethra and Other Poems and Stories about Sicily was published in 2024 by Legas. A second collection of poetry is forthcoming by Ekstasis Editions.