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Eufemia Fantetti

Eufemia Fantetti’s (she/her) fiction collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love, was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award and won a Bressani Prize. Her second book, My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir, was a finalist for the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards. Her nonfiction can be found in various anthologies, including Love Me True, Body & Soul and Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home, and one she co-edited, Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language. She teaches writing at Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber.

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My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir is a powerful and witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will. As the daughter of southern Italian immigrants joined in an acrimonious arranged marriage, Eufemia Fantetti weathered the devastating consequences of her mother’s treatment-resistant schizophrenia for years before moving to the West Coast to escape the constant turmoil. In her search for meaning beyond a host of ancestral superstitions―malocchio, maledictions and stregheria―she writes, cracks jokes, meets counselors, studies the sky for planetary alignment, consults her trusty tarot deck for guidance and visits her dad’s psychic healer for a prescription for prescience. Fantetti’s story is a darkly hilarious, tender chronicle of family, destiny and resilience.

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