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Some bits I loved from Tim Parks’ introduction: The family sayings are the glue of belonging and the focus of the book. Born of intense attrition they are perhaps more attractive precisely because the family is long since split up. …
Her writing about her family thus gave both her and them a place in the larger, though always dysfunctional, family that is Italy.
— Jun 01, 2026 10:52PM
Her writing about her family thus gave both her and them a place in the larger, though always dysfunctional, family that is Italy.
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