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  • Wandering through Life: A Memoir

    (By Donna Leon)

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    Author Donna Leon
    “Book Descriptions: The
    internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her
    own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties




    In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna
    Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than
    been planned.



    Following a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with
    frequent visits to her grandfather’s farm and its beloved animals, and summers
    spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Leon got her first taste of
    the classical music and opera that would enrich her life. She also developed a
    yen for adventure. In 1976, she made the spontaneous decision to teach English
    in Iran, before finding herself swept up in the early days of the 1979
    Revolution. After teaching stints in China and Saudi Arabia, she finally landed
    in Venice. Leon vividly animates her decades-long love affair with Italy, from
    her first magical dinner when serving as a chaperone to a friend, to the hunt
    for the perfect cappuccino, to the warfare tactics of grandmothers doing their
    grocery shopping at the Rialto Market. Some things remain constant throughout
    the decades: her adoration of opera, especially Handel’s vocal music, her
    advocacy for the environment, embodied in her passion for bees—which informs
    the surprising crux of the Brunetti mystery in Earthly Remains. Yet
    as Leon inspects the cracks in the wall of a friend’s bedroom, caused by vibrations
    from the seven-story cruise ships making their way down Venice’s canals, she
    admits regretfully that mass tourism has rendered the city less and less
    appealing to its longtime chronicler. 



    Having recently celebrated her eightieth birthday, Leon poignantly
    confronts the challenges of aging. Complete with a brief letter dissuading
    those hoping to meet Guido Brunetti at the Questura, and always suffused with
    music, food, and her fierce sense of humor, Wandering through Life
    offers Donna Leon at her most personal. ”

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