Welcome to Sharonville

Uncle Franco has brought up his beloved Toni single-handedly since he and Toni's mother Betta split many years before. Now Toni is lying in hospital before Franco has had chance to tell her the beautiful bitter truth that he's really her father. As Franco eats himself up with the guilt of a lifetime of lies, and tries to eat his way out of it, he and the characters of Sharonville are forced to re-assess who they are and what they've become. 

 

WELCOME TO SHARONVILLE makes just another tiny town in the US the setting for a contemporary epic of love, loss and redemption and Sharon Zink's unflinching gaze and needle-sharp prose allows neither character nor reader any escape from the pain and pleasure of small lives writ very large. WELCOME TO SHARONVILLE is a modern masterpiece of psychological nuance and human compassion.