A Miniature Life

Atlanta, Georgia. It begins in a manicomio, an Italian madhouse, and is just the beginning-albeit not quite clear. Alfonso Borello has just relocated from Milan, Italy. At Hartsfield-Jackson international airport he meets Nena, an attractive Jamaican-American woman; the two become almost inseparable. At a dinner party Alfonso meets Meili, Nena's close friend from China. At first, he is seduced by her striking appearance then deluded by her laconic attitude, "One word in forty-five minute," ...