The Overseer’s Family: A Memoir of the Tuscan Countryside
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A mother and daughter from Pennsylvania return to Tuscany to discover and tell family secrets. While enjoying meals of Tuscan cuisine, they discover the rise and fall of the peasant/padrone system. In turn, they tell of the fight for unionization in America. Then they encounter a medieval battlefield where the poet Dante offers additional secrets. Trying to place their family in these events, they journey through the centuries to Arezzo, Siena, and Florence. During that journey, they discover who we all are. It is funny, it is sad, it is angry, but most of all — it touches your heart! Cassandra Vivian is a writer/photographer whose work has been published on three continents. She has been awarded the Meritorious Award for lifetime achievement in publishing and the arts from California University of Pennsylvania.
By Cassandra Vivian (soft cover) 343 pp.
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A mother and daughter from Pennsylvania return to Tuscany to discover and tell family secrets. While enjoying meals of Tuscan cuisine, they discover the rise and fall of the peasant/padrone system. In turn, they tell of the fight for unionization in America. Then they encounter a medieval battlefield where the poet Dante offers additional secrets. Trying to place their family in these events, they journey through the centuries to Arezzo, Siena, and Florence. During that journey, they discover who we all are. It is funny, it is sad, it is angry, but most of all — it touches your heart! Cassandra Vivian is a writer/photographer whose work has been published on three continents. She has been awarded the Meritorious Award for lifetime achievement in publishing and the arts from California University of Pennsylvania.
By Cassandra Vivian (soft cover) 343 pp.