The Ardent Witness
“Reminiscent of Graham Greene and Barbara Kingsolver, The Ardent Witness digs into one young woman’s story as a way to examine some deep and troubling questions of our time. It’s a coming of age story for a post-global world.”
- Catherine Davidson, author of The Orchard and The Priest Fainted ( a New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
International Book Awards
Finalist 2019
Danielle Maisano is a novelist and doctoral researcher. Her debut novel, The Ardent Witness (Victorina Press, 2019), drawn from her experience as a Peace Corps health worker in Togo, West Africa, was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of West London, where her research brings together literary fiction and critical theory to examine neoliberalism, feminist frameworks and political resistance