The gracious voice at the center of The Fig Thief chronicles their often-circuitous and grief-marked journey toward liberation with admirable clarity and an enviable resoluteness. Open-hearted, wise, and bustling with a cast of characters spanning generations, The Fig Thief invites us into the hard-won celebration of a life and its laborious, complicated loves—queer love, familial love, love for the city, love for the stranger on the bus, and ultimately, love for the authentic self.
—Eugenia Leigh

The Fig Thief is an energizing portrait of true citizenship that is questioning, engaged and lived out. Whether walking the streets of Brooklyn, imagining ancestors at Ellis Island, or dining at a delightfully dysfunctional—but somehow functional—family meal, Belfiglio’s is a work of rigorous love and personal freedom. I know I’ll return to it again and again.
—Emily Sernaker