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A town in Tuscany may be the location because it places a brand new, intelligent, fascinating spin on age-old story of forbidden love for this wondrous debut—a book that contradicts all our objectives. Full of literary pleasures, stuffed with magnificent wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare’s comedies, Tomato Rhapsody may be the nearly-true account of the way the tomato found Italy—at once a superbly creative myth of love, lust, and desire, and a stunning feast for your imagination.This is just a history created from love—a banned love—between Davido, an Ebreo tomato player, and Mari, an attractive Catholic girl.…But it’s not just Davido and Mari who've secrets of one's heart. Everybody around them yearns for something—from Davido’s grandpa, who tenderly cultivates the tomato place he took on his trips with Columbus, to Mari’s villainous stepfather, whose attention is trained on his neighbor’s property and his stepdaughter’s virginity. Captured in the middle of those machinations and interests is just a town saturated in eccentrics who talk in rhyme, commemorate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a lifestyle untouched by the passing of time.