In The Angle of Flickering Light, Gina Troisi’s lawyer father is a serial philanderer. Rather than being secretive about his affairs, he tells his two children, five-year-old Gina and her sister, about these indiscretions before he abandons them to marry his secretary, Brenda. That impropriety marks the beginning of years of verbal abuse and neglect from her father and psychological torment from Brenda. These assaults on Gina’s young psyche in turn lead to her own drug abuse and participation in codependent relationships (particularly with John, a heroin addict) as she searches for a home, a place to call her own, both within and without herself. Gina is fortunate, though, to have an involved and caring mother and grandfather.
With lean prose, heavily laced with personal insight, Gina places a harsh spotlight on herself yet manages to maintain a spark of humanity alive within her for self-acceptance and a home as she goes through recovery. This is a stark, powerful look at one woman’s psyche.
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