Deviation: A Novel

"In Deviation, Luce D’Eramo unravels a complicated life through a combination of autobiographical fiction and memoir, from her early life in a bourgeois Italian Fascist family to volunteering in the hell of German labor camps during World War II to wandering stateless and ending up paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 19 after a wall falls on her as she rescues people from bombed-out rubble. D’Eramo’s teenage years stand out in sharp relief even against the great conflagration. Not only a personal story, but also a ruthless quest for self-knowledge, Deviation is a literary tour de force."