In her newest book, a collection of short stories, Mary Tonetti Dorra has amassed a group of characters based in part on her own real friends and relatives who interact with those which are purely fictional.

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Refracted through Mary Dorra’s own life, these delightful short stories illuminate the last century of international cultural diaspora, one tied together by art and cuisine. A painting moves from Cuba to Paris to California to Pittsburgh, telling us its history as it goes; a Peruvian lepidopterist of English descent meets a former ballerina; a Venezuelan painting goes from Washington to Carpinteria and back to Venezuela. Not so much a feast of stories but tapas, small tasty morsels.

—Bruce Robertson,
Professor, Emeritus, History of Art & Architecture, UCSB
Director, Emeritus, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB