{"product_id":"mother-tongue-paperback-1","title":"Mother Tongue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWallis Wilde-Menozzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived as individualistic led Wilde-Menozzi to explore the pull and challenge of difference and discover the backbone she needed for artistic freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in-law. Framed with a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Patricia Hampl, this classic on diversity and tolerance, family, faith, and food in Italy and the United States is at once timeless and timely, a \"large, beautiful window into the intelligent, literate, reflective life of Italy\" (Shirley Hazzard).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallis Wilde-Menozzi\u003c\/b\u003e's books include \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of the Tiber\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eToscanelli's Ray\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Spiritual Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTel Aviv Review\u003c\/i\u003e. A collection of her essays was published in Italian as \u003ci\u003eL'Oceano e'dentro di noi\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently she is teaching migrant women who are waiting for their Italian papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449925845170,"sku":"9780865477780","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f3f4402724206c7b31c6b789bb84ffa2.webp?v=1778775687","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mother-tongue-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}