A Valley in Italy
Book description
The author recounts a year she spent in San Orsela, a small town in the Umbrian hils of Italy, sharing portraits of her Italian friends and a celebration of the seasonal cycle
Why read it?
1 author picked A Valley in Italy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you’ve ever fantasized about restoring a crumbling medieval Italian villa, then you’ll get to live that experience vicariously through this memoir.
The author has a wonderful sense of the absurd as she recounts her family’s multi-year efforts to turn a roofless villa into their dream home, complete with a complicated teenage daughter who is trying to find her way in the rural Italian countryside where the family has been transplanted.
Brimming with idiosyncratic and endearing characters.
From Dominic's list on armchair travel through Italy and Italian history.
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