Giuseppe Catanzariti

Giuseppe is a writer from New England, now living in Haarlem, the Netherlands, with his wife and son. He studied English at the University of North Dakota and has received awards for his short fiction and poetry. He is also a painter and has previously self-published a novel.

Having travelled through more than fifty countries, he is fascinated by strange places, unfamiliar cultures, and the stories people tell about the worlds they inhabit.

He wrote Across the Causeway out of a lifelong belief in the importance of imagination, curiosity, and whimsy.

Giuseppe Catanzariti

Across the Causeway

Autumn Mooney-Ventt has spent her life staring west.

Across the Causeway — book cover

Beyond her home in Safe Harbour lies the Causeway: an ancient bridge of impossible proportions stretching five thousand kilometres across the sea, climbing into the sky, plunging beneath the ocean, passing through forgotten cities, wildernesses, and places no reliable map can explain. Almost nobody has travelled its full length. Nobody knows for certain what waits at the other end.

So Autumn decides to go and find out.

Accompanied by Michael Esposito, her fastidious, occasionally exasperated floating superintelligence, she sets off on a journey through a world of phasewhales and bristleballs, masked festivals and invisible bridges, academic conspiracies, time-drunk villages, ancient machinery, ridiculous tyrants, improbable friendships, murder mysteries, disaster movies, and rather more ceremonial pageantry than either of them anticipated.

Across the Causeway is a big, weird, funny, hopeful novel about curiosity, friendship, history, stories, and the dangerous business of believing you already know what lies beyond the horizon.

Mostly, though, it is about going there to see.