Local author's second novel 'infused with heart and soul'

By Christy Nadalin
Posted 10/20/16

Author Eva Pasco (aka Patricia Salerno; her nom de plume is a tribute to her mother, Eva, and father, Pasco) claims she embodies the characters she likes to write about in her preferred genre of …

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Local author's second novel 'infused with heart and soul'

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Author Eva Pasco (aka Patricia Salerno; her nom de plume is a tribute to her mother, Eva, and father, Pasco) claims she embodies the characters she likes to write about in her preferred genre of contemporary women's fiction: feisty, flawed, and over 40. She can own the first and last, but if early reviews are any indication, any flaws one might uncover in her prose are easily overshadowed by her ability to craft an "emotionally charged", "revealing philosophical and psychological examination" full of "hard-hitting insights and reflections."

Raised in Limerock, a tiny village within the town of Lincoln, Salerno graduated from Lincoln High School and and received her master's degree in elementary education from Rhode Island College. For almost 30 years she taught grades 3, 5, and 6 in her hometown. She loved it, but something was missing — something she was able to indulge in retirement.

"I always wrote," she says. "I credit my mother for my love of books and writing — and also for teaching me to type properly."

Salerno wrote her first book at age 12, a mystery/spy novel. And she wrote a romance novella in high school. But writing took a back seat while she got her education, and then went on to educate so many others. Finally, in 2007, she released her first novel, "Underlying Notes", for which she was interviewed for TIME Magazine (March 17, 2008). Before and since, Salerno, who now makes her home in East Providence, has contributed scores of memoirs and essays on a variety of topics, but primarily Rhode Island history and the 1960's.

Her fondness for and knowledge of all things Rhode Island figures prominently in her latest work, "An Enlightening Quiche", set in Beauchemins, a fictitious Blackstone Valley mill community populated by plain-spoken and unpretentious French Canadians. Against the backdrop of the setting, and interwoven with Rhode Island history, she crafts a story that centers on the clash between two 40-something women over an heirloom quiche recipe, a rivalry that leads to "erroneous assumptions, misdeeds, unleashed secrets, and malicious intent.”

Characters and quiche aside, this is no lightweight work of "chick lit", as one self-described macho Hemingway and Mailer fan attests: "I found this to be a fast-paced read with plot twists mixed perfectly with a cast of characters so well defined they seem to jump off the pages. Both the male and female characters are richly portrayed as they wend and wind through each others lives in a most literate fashion, absorbing each other while the writing style draws the reader into the very battle between two women who have spent a lifetime sparring and competing."

"An Enlightening Quiche" is available through both Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and available to order by bookstores and libraries through Infinity Publishing. For a signed/personalized copy, visit the Signed Bookstore at Authors Den: authorsden.com/evapasco.


Eva Pasco, Patricia Salerno, An Enlightening Quiche

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