Like tracks on a record album, the 21 stories here transport the reader into the various moods of men and women making sense of their worlds, sometimes funny, sometimes moving, but always engaging. Their various settings - provincial America, London, Venice, Berlin, Paris, and new places of the writers' imaginings - add flavours, colours and rhythms that reflect as well the diversity and variety of the two writers and their approaches. Andrea Perego is a man. Daniela Biscontin is a woman. Obviously, they have different points of view. And this is the key factor of this combined collection....