La casa mangia le parole (Ponte alle Grazie, 2019) by Leonardo G. Luccone opens on New Year’s Eve, 2011. Engineer De Stefano and his wife, who appear to the outside world as a perfect couple, are in fact going through a deep crisis they cannot admit to their families. Their beloved son Emanuele seems to be finally overcoming his dyslexia. Professionally, De Stefano is awaiting a long-desired promotion at Bioambiente, a Roman company specializing in renewable energy, while his friendship with Moses, a brilliant Italian-American colleague, hints at the possibility of change. Yet the coming year will sweep through their lives like a storm, shattering certainties, relationships, and ambitions, and leaving none of them unchanged. With its incisive dialogues and finely crafted structure, the novel intertwines private fragility with the decline of a social class and the overwhelming force of a Nature that seems to rebel against human arrogance.