Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother
Mary Melfi
Jan 2009 · Guernica Editions
Ebook
136
Pages
About this ebook
Taking an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing, this work serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter. The conversation takes place in a medieval town high up in the Italian mountains, as the author, a Canadian writer, draws out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. As they re-create that vanished world, the pair also finds greater understanding of the tumultuous relationships that sometimes exist between immigrant mothers and their children.
Taking an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing, this work serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter. The conversation takes place in a medieval town high up in the Italian mountains, as the author, a Canadian writer, draws out her mother's childhoo...
About the author
Mary Melfi is the author of Infertility Rites, Sex Therapy, and Stages. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Mary Melfi is the author of Infertility Rites, Sex Therapy, and Stages. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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