Savage Adoration

Johnny Major is a Sicilian-born magnate. He is the creator of a network of restaurant-club-casinos in Europe and North America. He dies at eighty-nine. His will goes missing Ellissa, Johnny’s beloved daughter, and her half-brother Davy are forced to confront various ex-wives (including a stupendously venal 75-year-old Dutch film starlet), her own fierce mother, who “had she been a man, would’ve been heavyweight champion of the world,” twin half-siblings (one anorexic, one morbidly obese), duplicitous lawyers, her father’s ghost, and old women who are paid to scream at funerals. Ellissa learns how vertiginous and surreal “real life” can be when love, death and money collide. Her journey is funny, yet deadly serious – like life.