Like much of Domenico Starnone’s fiction, this short novel is set in the author’s native Naples. It begins in 1952, when the narrator, Mimí, is eight, unhappy and obsessed with two things: the girl on ...

“That one is complicated, structurally … One thing at a time.” “Foolish mortals” will be able to see the new bride In the ride when it reopens on Jan. 18 after a nearly year-long closure.