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A BRIDGE BETWEEN ~ Northern Italy Come Hell or High Water
A BRIDGE BETWEEN ~ Northern Italy Come Hell or High Water
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In the middle of the night in a darkened airport, a tiny voice inside her head taunted her. “Do you know where your mother is?” The voice began to shriek. “I am the caregiver.”
A colorful travelogue of Italy in its own right, this thought-provoking memoir by a new voice on aging transcends the genre to become a socially relevant love story of devotion, acceptance, and the evolution of familial relationships. From Venice to Savona, follow in the footsteps of a family as they wrestle physically and emotionally with the passage of time.
Traipsing off to visit her 91-year old father’s ancestral village in northern Italy, the author is an unlikely caregiver, in over her head escorting her elderly parents. Alternately light hearted and poignantly tearful, the family travels far beyond the picturesque backdrop of northern Italy, breaking ground on what has become a universal journey for millions of adult children—caring for the parents who raised them.
They struggle to keep their heads above water in Venice, battle Comacchian eel and endure a frantic game of hide and seek in Ravenna. They nourish their bodies and souls in Emilia-Romagna, best a belligerent agent in Bellagio and reflect on love and loss in winter's shadow on Lake Como. From Venice to Savona, vivid landscapes and historic venues blend with lessons from the author’s childhood in a crash course on aging with grace and determination.
As a generation of baby boomers confronts the long-term care of their parents, A BRIDGE BETWEEN is outstanding as a book club selection, for caregivers, family discussion, students and professionals in the field of gerontology.
A colorful travelogue of Italy in its own right, this thought-provoking memoir by a new voice on aging transcends the genre to become a socially relevant love story of devotion, acceptance, and the evolution of familial relationships. From Venice to Savona, follow in the footsteps of a family as they wrestle physically and emotionally with the passage of time.
Traipsing off to visit her 91-year old father’s ancestral village in northern Italy, the author is an unlikely caregiver, in over her head escorting her elderly parents. Alternately light hearted and poignantly tearful, the family travels far beyond the picturesque backdrop of northern Italy, breaking ground on what has become a universal journey for millions of adult children—caring for the parents who raised them.
They struggle to keep their heads above water in Venice, battle Comacchian eel and endure a frantic game of hide and seek in Ravenna. They nourish their bodies and souls in Emilia-Romagna, best a belligerent agent in Bellagio and reflect on love and loss in winter's shadow on Lake Como. From Venice to Savona, vivid landscapes and historic venues blend with lessons from the author’s childhood in a crash course on aging with grace and determination.
As a generation of baby boomers confronts the long-term care of their parents, A BRIDGE BETWEEN is outstanding as a book club selection, for caregivers, family discussion, students and professionals in the field of gerontology.
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