pickWhat an excellent memoir of a year in the life of an amazing author! Doerr won the Rome Prize, an expense paid year in Rome to write and for his family to live there with him. He‘s clearly working on All the Light We Cannot See while there, but this memoir is also a result. He writes about his four seasons in Rome. I only spent a week there, but I was able to picture most everything he described and it was absolutely wonderful “re-living” it. ⬇️
Texreader But it‘s more than that. He relates his wife‘s and his experience with newborn twins. And their experiences as new parents are so very real, with the added twist of being in a country where they don‘t speak the language. He describes being so close to the Vatican when Pope John Paul died and witnessing the grief and then the joy of a new pope. I loved living vicariously through Doerr. An excellent read. Five stars. #Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit 2d
AmyG Twins….in a country with no family for help….challenging, for sure. 2d
LeslieO Great review! I read this in 2008 and loved it. 2d
so-so