Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
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Fourteen years ago, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved with her husband and daughter to Parma, a prosperous city in northern Italy. Searching for a way to find a place within a city that has existed since Roman times, she conducted a highly personal investigation of the often baffling, closed way of life she encountered. Mother Tongue explores Parma, largely through the lives of its women, some historical figures—Giuseppe Verdi, Correggio, the Renaissance badessa Giovanna Piacenza—and other extraordinary individuals. It is also a remarkable, probing evocation of an American life that has been tried and tempered by two very different societies. No other book evokes so poignantly and profoundly the role of food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life and, by reflection, in our own.
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi is the author of Mother Tongue, The Other Side of the Tiber, and Toscanelli’s Ray. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in Granta, The Best Spiritual Writing, Words Without Borders, and Tel Aviv Review. A collection of her essays was published in Italian as L'Oceano e' dentro di noi. She lives in Parma, Italy.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How the much fantasized life in Italy can result in disillusion, bitterness, isolation. Depicts the Italian family life as a suffocating tangle of relationships; the Italian education system, as a humiliating experience where grades are public, oral interrogations are held in front of the full class... forget the beauty of Tuscany. This is the harshest world of the post-agricultural North, which has severed its roots from the past and is unsure where it is going.The prose is vivid, the characters deftly described. I recommend this book to anybody who wants to understand life in Italy better. No Tuscan Sun here.