The history of New York’s iconic Greenwich Village comes alive in novelist and filmmaker Richard Natale’s Greenwich Connection, a novella and interconnected short stories that span the second half of the twentieth century, from the waning days of WW II to September 11, 2001. The novella and stories feature a rainbow collection of eccentrics, misfits, lovers, and friends, all united in their quest for love, acceptance, and a sense of community. 
 
The novella, In the Fall of Forty-Four, begins in war-torn Naples and quickly moves to the razzle-dazzle of post-war Manhattan. We follow Terry and Monty’s often tempestuous lives through the end of the twentieth century, during which their on-again, off-again relationship is buffeted by political and social upheaval. The subsequent short stories expand on the lives of several minor characters in the novella, who have flocked to the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village from near and far searching for a haven in which to express their dreams and desires. Their respective fates become inextricably entwined in the enormous historical and social changes unfolding around them.