Anthony Romano’s debut novel, WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG, set in 1957 Chicago, introduces Agostino Peccatori, who runs an Italian-American neighborhood social club and tavern and his wife Rosa, as they struggle with the death of their infant son, while their eldest son falls in love with father’s pregnant lover, preempted by Claire Wachtel at Wm Morrow in a good deal, by agent Marly Rusoff (World but German)
