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Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely bothers with punctuation. Mother Maria, a professional translator, writes detailed and observant letters yet doesn't see what is happening right in front of her. And grandmother Gesuina, a former stage actress, speaks into an audio recorder, giving a provocative and brutally candid performance for an imagined audience that might never listen.Life, Brazen and Garishoffers a fresh take on the epistolary novel, telling the story of a family through the fragmented and disparate perspectives of daughter, mother, and grandmother. Yet even as each woman endures her private struggles with love and betrayal, youth and maturity, knowledge and ignorance, reality and illusion, the Cascadeis forge a solidarit

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El cuerpo feliz de Dacia Maraini es el cuerpo desnudo y digno, sin disfraces ni escudos, de una especie de Robin Hood en femenino que desvalija a quienes durante siglos escribieron la historia para devolver a las mujeres los méritos que les han sido robados. Pero es también el desdichado cuerpo de una madre huérfana de su único hijo que no llegó a nacer. Una mujer que, herida de muerte mientras gestaba la vida, decide seguir siendo una madre aun sin vástago. Y con esa dulzura de madre, la pasión de una maestra y la fuerza de una mujer orgullosa de serlo, Dacia Maraini proporciona tanto al hijo que crece en su mente como al lector las herramientas para reflexionar, para aprender de los errores del pasado y para devolverle a la mujer la pluma con la que emprender su revolución y reescribir su historia. El resultado es un ensayo narrativo lúcido y directo que, a partir de la trágica experiencia de la autora, traza un recorrido crítico y autocrítico sobre la condición de la mujer a lo larg

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This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italy's most renowned writers.

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An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world of medieval Italy, witnessing the daily rituals of convent life. At the center of that life is Saint Clare, a subversive and compelling figure full of contradictions: a physically disabled woman who travels widely in her imagination, someone unforgivingly harsh to herself yet infinitely generous to the women she supervises, a practitioner of self-abnegation who nevertheless knows her own worth. A visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy, Saint Clare here becomes an inspirational figure for a new generation of readers.

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An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world of medieval Italy, witnessing the daily rituals of convent life. At the center of that life is Saint Clare, a subversive and compelling figure full of contradictions: a physically disabled woman who travels widely in her imagination, someone unforgivingly harsh to herself yet infinitely generous to the women she supervises, a practitioner of self-abnegation who nevertheless knows her own worth. A visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy, Saint Clare here becomes an inspirational figure for a new generation of readers.

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