The Wolf's Mouth
Everything in Damiana's life comes to a pinnacle point of personal realization just minutes before her debut as the leading character in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. A sequence of events - from an unexpected family reunion that forces her to analyze her past, to facing the consequences of the domestic abuse she and her siblings endured, through finding the answer to a very painful question - culminate to leave her world forever altered. The Wolf's Mouth offers a candid look into Damiana's life as an opera singer, what happens backstage before and during performances, and what happens when unexpected turns in her life leaver her facing the not-so-clich_ reality that the performance must go on... As Damiana works her way through her troubles, she relies on her own version of the past for guidance - a version quite different from that of her sister's, brother's, father's, all of whom are emotionally enslaved to the past. . . In the end, the reader finds resolution - as does Damiana - through those memories, because they hold the only possibilities to realize change and redemption.