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In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
In Maremma Life and a House in Southern Tuscany Author:David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell A delightfully warm and intimate portrait of life in a small rural town in Tuscany. In Maremma recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950's farmhouse in southern Tuscany and the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life that foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harv... more »est and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, In Maremma is also a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany.« less
This book is so well written, I really enjoyed it and learned a lot about Italy. Very humorous, I especially enjoyed the stories about the local people.
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This was better than I was expecting. I think I got a good taste of what it was like to live as an expat in a southern Tuscan town. Very different way of life. In one chapter it was mentioned how many people moved to Hershey PA to work in the chocolate factory. They mentioned a particular cousin. That cousin was a very close friend of my mother in law so that was astounding.