Bernard Mendillo

It's What We Do Bernard Mendillo

IT'S WHAT WE DO: SORT OF A LOVE STORY is a humorous, episodic novel about a man in his 70s who becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him just as they adopted a little girl from China. Mario Cervello is besieged by lost love, uncertainly, obsessions, tiredness and, most of all onions-they are the source, as he tries often to explain, of "monumental gastric distress."His daughter Happy is his sole potential for redemption. The narration is first-person, episodic, in no chronological order whatsoever-as it unravels the story of Mario and Happy's journey-humorous, heartfelt, uplifting-through the travail of life, love, family, parents, children and-most of all-hope.