Creative Nonfiction (excerpt) | Italian | Italy
July, 2013Miransù is the name of a place and Monica Sarsini's family home outside Florence, in the Valdarno. The book is in two voices, Monica Sarsini's and her grandmother's; the voices alternate. Each voice follows different memories about the place and relations with generations of family. Stylistically, the voices differ as well: Sarsini's is intensely physical, though reflective; her grandmother's more direct, like speech.
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