Broken

“Viti’s stories, rich with twists and surprises, invite us to get comfortable in awkward positions. They settle us into the lives of ordinary people, lives of tenderness and darkness, humor and sorrow. But he infuses them with a compassionate understanding that, in this all-too-human world, we’re doing the best we can, even if we could do a lot better.”

“It won’t be lost on the reader that these Bits and Pieces are not fragments. Viti rescues these scraps—of character, coincidence, innuendo—and fashions them into their best selves: stories complete, confident, resonant and remarkable.”

“Dominic Viti captures the darkly comic malaise of modern life. And though his lovably haunted narrators struggle, their epiphanies suggest that in the end, maybe we can all put ourselves back together again. Broken is an expertly crafted debut.”

“Broken offers a portrait in stories of a place along the lines of Dubliners, but for the many U.S. communities that descend spiritually from Faulkner’s South, full of grift, grit, and grimness. I recognized parts of my own Michigan hometown here; I suspect others will see their own towns and cities, too. Those who don’t have all the more reason to see the world anew through Viti’s eyes.”