Insightful and a full of a realistic mythos covering an 8 year period of the lives of Marina Warner's parents.

While all the stories and prose is lovely, I especially found the descriptions and internal monologues she provides of her mother were so real and vulnerable brought me closer to my own Sicilian family in a lot of ways. My grandparents were first generation Sicilian immigrants about the same age as her mom, and I honestly felt such a kindred cultural loneliness present. The same one I know my Grandpa had from time to time.

Definitely gonna retread this one again in the future