The Color Inside a Melon
John Domini
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The Color Inside a Melon
John Domini
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
John Domini returns with some of the most assured writing of his career. Set in Naples in the wake of an earthquake, The Color Inside a Melon is a brisk, literary mystery that marries art and the investigation of a murder with questions of immigration, race, and class. Domini is at the top of his game in what may be the surprise hit of the summer..
Melon functions as much as an assimilation novel as it does a noir. But it’s rhetorically offbeat, as well.
... stylized, artful, and heroic.
The latest from Domini...is a dark, brisk-paced, and intriguing—if sometimes slightly ungainly—hybrid.