Gianni Terremoto is a baker. He is on a quest to bake his way into history. Gianni's lover's breasts have become the baker's mental mould for his rolls and sourdoughs and his daughter Francesca is about to become enshrined as the new local saint, their carnival martyr.
In the year in question Good Friday and April Fool's Day coincide. Gianni, born an April Fool, decides to bake a hot cross bun the like of which there's never been. The ensuing hallucinations and food poisoning derail the entire town. This, then, is the story of the first Breadmaker's Carnival. When Easter and the Carnival collide, the town is changed forever.
This is a mature adult entertainment leavened by verbal wit, bawdy narration and a profound sense of bizarre codes that unify small communities. Lindsay has contrived funny sex scenes and provokes, often hilariously, meditations that may strike at many readers' assumptions of superlative rationality.
