Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.

Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to find self-definition and self-identity. Born into a prominent Jewish Italian family full of strong personalities and colorful figures, Clara narrates the humorous, dramatic, and often poignant events that inform her life. Intertwining recipes with her narrative, Clara uses food as markers for the cornerstones of her life, allowing her to discover and remember both public and private events-a Yom Kippur dinner, fascism and antifascism, the early years of the young Italian republic, the politics and culture of the Italian left, the openness of the 1960s and '70s, and the retreat into privacy of the 1980s.

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Yes, you can access Keeping House by Clara Sereni, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Susan Briziarelli, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries,Susan Briziarelli in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Littérature & Biographies de sciences sociales. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.