"I consider myself to be the son of Piero Chiara ... I was his devoted reader. I've always loved storytellers and Chiara had great powers of seduction."
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Andrea Camilleri, author of The Shape of Water
“Recounts a life of displacement through rich sense memories … Jarre focusses on specific, intense recollections: the jellied calves’ feet her father ate, herbs in her grandmother’s mountain garden, even the taste of Nivea skin cream. The book’s elliptical string of fragments captures the nonlinear nature of memory.”
The New Yorker