{:en}PRESS RELEASE (08/28/2017)
Tuesday, August 29, a Loano, the meeting with the author Matthew Compass will close the sixth edition of the review Culture Tuesdays organized by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with Event Size e Mondadori Bookstore Loano.
In the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden, to the 6 p.m., the writer, in his literary debut, will present the book “Late nights, breakfast kisses” (2016 Einaudi Publisher).
Matthew Compass (Verona, 1971), an architect, at age 35 decided to change everything. Today he is a dad to Virginia, Geneva, and Melania. For work he draws comic books. Late nights, breakfast kisses Is the diary of his new existence.
“The breath of your daughter sleeping on you drooling over your sweatshirt. The nights spent working and the nights spent watching over the girls. The hard questions that force you to search for words. The bad braids, the shoes to tie, the tickling, the «licks,» the kisses at all hours.” These are the moments of unrepeatable normalcy that Matthew Compass captures. “Because sometimes, just by looking at what seems obvious, we unexpectedly find the meaning of everything.”
The presentation reads: A father of three small daughters, Matthew knows how to return their astonished gaze, the same gaze with which, since they were born, he too has tried to observe the world. Wacky dialogues, funny domestic scenes, under-voiced reflections that after reading continue to resonate in the head. In the ’habit of staying« one discovers an unexpected freedom, in the gestures of everyday life one discovers how poetic fatherhood can be.
Late nights, breakfast kisses was born almost by accident, from a game. The Veronese author began making Facebook posts in which he recounted his daily adventures with his three daughters. The way Matteo Bussola recounts his life as a dad day by day has conquered the web, so much so that those posts are now a book{:}
