A Fistful of Happiness

About the Book

One evening, he was walking home from his farm. The fiery eye of the sky sprayed the last golden dust to the horizon before bidding good-bye to the day. Silence reigned all around, interrupted sporadically only by the sound of a cricket or a frog's cry. Suddenly, a bicycle bell rang behind him. Without turning back, he opted to move to the left. The rider hit a pothole, lost control of the vehicle and ran over Campus. Both fell to the ground and, as they looked at each other, they blushed and then broke into a sonorous laughter. She apologized for the accident, but he made nothing of it, helped her to stand up and to dust off her skirt. It was then that a couple of tears fell down her cheeks and ended in the yellow dust. He wiped the tears from her face with his handkerchief and hugged her.

A Fistful of Happiness is based on real life situations about our youthful desire for carpe diem, fulfilled dreams, mystery, humor, and the potential to achieve long lasting happiness.

About the Author

Antonio Casale was born in Cervinara, Italy, and immigrated to America in the 1960s. He studied in Florence, Madrid, and Mexico, taught languages for twenty-seven years in public schools, and hosted a radio program for more than fifteen years. Currently, he is a faculty member at Syracuse University, in New York State, where he has taught for the past 15 years.