John Manderino is the author of five novels, two short stories collections and two memoirs. A novel titled Bopper's Progress was the winner of the 2017 Wundor International Fiction Award and a runner-up for the 2019 Maine Book of the Year, in fiction. Reason for Leaving (short stories) was Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year - Bronze Award Winner 2001 for Humor. John has also written plays that have been performed at theater festivals and other venues and has had short stories published in periodicals.
John Manderino delivers here a tender, often darkly funny portrait of two lives, Jill’s and Jack’s, from childhood triumphs and humiliations to teenage awakenings, from an awkward train encounter one late afternoon to a lifetime shared. Told in alternating voices, with humor and heartbreak, this is a book about the way people can fall, continue tumbling, and sometimes, at the bottom of the hill, manage to find one another.
