Painting The Invisible Man
Rita Schiano

Written with razor-sharp wit, Painting the Invisible Man is an absorbing tale that smoothly blends the quest for truth with the complexities of a self-portrait.
— Midwest Book Review

    In 2001, while researching the online archives of her hometown newspaper for a client, freelance writer Rita Schiano made a keying error—a simple mistake that led her to a path she’d been avoiding most of her life; on a journey inside the world of her father, killed gangland-style more than two decades ago.
    Schiano turned that difficult journey into an engrossing novel, Painting The Invisible Man, which explores the complex dynamics of growing up in an Italian family on the fringes of the Mafia. 

    While most Americans know of the atrocities of World War II through films such as Holocaust, Sophie’s Choice, and Schindler’s List, Janina Stankiewicz Chung simply knows. Her family endured life under Communist oppression in Russia, forced relocation to Hitler’s hellish concentration camps, and the sorrow of losing their homeland.

    And that’s just part of her story….