Italy, a Love Story: Women Write about the Italian Experience

Legendary for fabulous food, persistent men, and a lyrical language, Italy has inspired many great love affairs--with the country itself. In this thrilling and layered new collection, women from Barbara Grizzuti Harrison to the neo-Tuscan Frances Mayes to Mary Simetti Taylor explore and describe in loving prose individual infatuations with a land that is both complicated by and adored for a rich tradition.