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“This is a book you can read again and again and again, and find something new in it every single time, the way that—if you start really listening—you can hear something new in your family stories. The book is in no way grand, even though it’s dealing with these huge figures (lots of famous faces are involved), a huge time—war comes and goes in a few pages. This is about everyday life, about what happens in houses rather than in government offices. She sees people for what they are. “ Read more...
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Thea Lenarduzzi, Journalist
“Family Lexicon, which is more like a novelized memoir, is a valuable testimony of how private life unfolded during Fascist Italy.” Read more...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Historian
