Quiet Chaos, by Sandra Veronesi An Italian business executive rescues a drowning woman, then returns home to discover that, while he was saving a stranger, his own wife suddenly died. Now he turns his attention to his 9-year-old daughter. As an international merger of his company is underway, he goes AWOL from work, instead committing himself to a simple and, in his mind, completely rational existence: standing in front of his daughter’s school, all day, every day. A fascinating cast of characters visits him at his car–other executives, his disastrous and beautiful sister-in-law, and, eventually, the heiress whom he...

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