Barbara’s Reviews > Love & Gelato > Status Update

Written for a YA audience, the author does an excellent job of writing the narration and dialogue realisticly. Lina is a 16 year old whose mother dies and is sent to Italy to live with her father. Within a day of her arrival, Lina is given a journal kept by her mother when she attended art school in Florence. The journal reveals aspects of her mother's life she never knew and secrets she never suspected existed.