From the first pages of this memoir, you will be hooked. The author is fourteen years old when her mother wakes her in the middle of the night to confide that her husband’s best friend has kissed her. So begins many secrets shared between mother and daughter. As the author gets older, she continues to be her mother’s confidante while hiding the truth from her beloved stepfather, family and friends. This is the kind of book that you will want to talk about with everybody because it is so full of explosive true-life incidents.
Author Abby Maslin’s marriage was picture perfect. But all that changed when her husband was viciously attacked. Her new reality becomes helping her brain injured husband learn how to talk and walk again. Maslin shares her innermost thoughts on what it is like to cope with a severely disabled spouse. This memoir shows the courage it takes for both of them to live for “better or worse” when there is a lot of worse.
This memoir is for anyone who dreams of starting life over in an exotic place. Overweight, unhealthy, and lonely, writer Kamin Mohammadi left her stressful London life and moved to Florence, Italy for a year. Her new routines include walking everywhere, shopping for fresh food at markets, learning to cook simple meals (recipes included) and eating reasonable portions. Her colorful Italian friends influence the way she thinks, eats, drinks and loves. She learns to embrace her most beautiful self “all the time and in every way” and adopts a more simple existence, savoring the sweetness of a slower pace.
