Across the thirteen experimental stories that constitute Marzia Grillo's debut collection The Sun's Point of View, real and imagined figures fight for secure understandings of a reality that is under a constant fog of instability. In the middle of a lake, a man proposes literary award night. The themes, protagonists, and events populating these enveloping works of creative autofiction play out in a nexus of overlapping scenes across the city and countryside of Grillo's Rome. Through masterful, effervescent storytelling, moments like moving house, watching a sleeping child, and feeling the heat of the sun coalesce in The Sun's Point of View to generate kaleidoscopic snapshots of intimate quotidian interactions.
