Ivan Villa “Collapsed Nights… Grunts at Breakfast”, NeP Edizioni

“Collapsed Nights… Grunts at Breakfast” by Ivan Villa is a book that, from the title itself, hints at the light and ironic tone that characterizes it.
Through a series of short stories, the author observes with an affectionate, amusing, and deeply human gaze the daily life of a family dealing with the growth of three teenage daughters and the ongoing negotiation that accompanies every stage of parenting.
Amid endless journeys to take the daughters to school or practice, strategies to balance the family budget, and mornings marked by alarms, occupied bathrooms, and communication reduced to simple grunts, a journey takes shape filled with kilometers, unexpected events, and a constantly evolving lexicon, populated by terms like flexing and ghosting.
Meanwhile, the centimeters gained in height by the daughters seem to transform, for the parents, into tons of effort, but also happiness.
With a personal and immediately recognizable style, the author constructs a lively narrative, filled with rapid dialogues, asides, lists, quotes, and continuous changes of pace. His writing naturally alternates between comedy and melancholy, lightness and depth, creating pages capable of making you smile and, at the same time, touching your heart.
The three daughters become the common thread of a story that explores the transition from childhood to adolescence, with its inevitable embarrassments, small rebellions, silences, and that distance that grows along with love.
Enriched by literary and cultural references ranging from Bukowski to Borges, the book always keeps the humanity of the characters and the wonderful chaos of everyday life at its center. 
Villa weaves moments of irresistible humor with others of genuine tenderness, crafting a narrative in which parents, teachers, and educators can easily recognize themselves.
A work that celebrates the imperfections, precarious balances, and extraordinary normality of today's families, reminding us that growing up means, above all, changing together.

Ivan Villa works with children and teenagers, in every order and disorder of schools.
He has published Brr… What Stories! (Emme Edizioni, 2019), First Year of Middle School, I Better Do Well! (Lapis edizioni, 2021), The Ibex's Vertigo (Lapis edizioni, 2025), novels for children and teenagers.
He collaborates, as an author of puzzles, concentric frames, and cryptograms, with La Settimana Enigmistica, earning important awards and recognitions.
He lives surrounded by his wife, three daughters, two cats, and a dog in Concorezzo (MB).

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