Keeping House: A Novel in Recipes

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 04/14/2005
ISBN: 9780791464793
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.34w x 0.65d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/11/2005 pg. 36
Foreword 05/01/2005 pg. 1
Foreword 08/19/2009