Starnone's novel Trick off to a strong start

Off to a good start w/ Domenico Starnone's 2016 novel, Trick, recently translated into English by none other than Jhumpa Lahiri - a relatively short novel narrated by a 75-year-old Italian man, a successful artist now battling various health issues and  ailments, long widowed, who gets summoned by his 40-year-old daughter to come from his home in Milan to her apartment in Naples to sit for her 4-year-old son while she and her husband speak at a mathematics conference. Among the lines of tension in this narrative: first, the narrator has long lived away from Milan, and his daughter's apartment was actually his family home, where he was raised among a large # of cousins and siblings, so the apartment and neighborhood - now much more trendy than in his youth - have strong memories for him, not all good. Second, his health is not great and he's forgetful and impatient, not the ideal candidate to sit for a 4-year-old for several days - lots could happen. Third, the narrator, though he's lost none of his ability to communicate - the tells his story with great insight, pacing, and beauty - he is being forced to recognize that his career as an artist and illustrator may be near its end - he's working on a commission to illustrate a James story (I'm not sure which one, maybe The Jolly Corner?; I suspect Lahiri will clear this up in her intro, which I will read after I finish reading the novel) and the editor is disappointed in the first to plates he's sent - causing him to rage internally against this young editor but also to begin to recognize that he's no longer in synch with the times - even the grandson says grantpa's drawings are too "dark." Fourth, the daughter's marriage seems to be in tatters - she complains to the narrator that her husband is paranoid and moody, whereas the husband confides that he believes the daughter is having an affair w/ their department chair. So there's a lot up in the air through part one (of 3) in this short novel; it's a domestic novel, just a limited # of characters and a short time span (I'm guessing at that), but the characters are sharply delineated and the stakes are high.