Blue Hunger author Viola Di Grado, (Photo courtesy Corrado Lorenzo Vasquez),left and Gray Love eidtor Bauer-Maglin, right ‘Blue Hunger’ offers an excitingly dangerous romance abroad while ‘Gray Love’ explores the pitfalls and possibilities of dating after 60 TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm SezBookwormSez@Yahoo.com Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado, translated by Jamie Richards.
c.2023, Bloomsbury; $27; 216 pages. You can’t stop thinking about it. It’s been rolling around in your mind since it happened, and you can’t stop.
You replay it over and over — how it started, how it progressed, why it ended. You wonder if it’ll happen again. And in the new novel Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado, you wonder if you truly want it to.
Shanghai was not her first choice to live. Sometimes, she wasn’t really even sure why she came there, except that it was Ruben’s dream.