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Oct 24, 2014DorisWaggoner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Very short essays, which must have been published elsewhere, many of them years ago. Dates and places of publications would have improved the book a lot. Not many are really about Venice itself, though some of those are the best. One, for instance, is why Venice's lack of cars is among its primary virtues for residents. She shows her rage over a number of issues, including how Italian and New York men treat women. I loved some of her essays on life in her house in the Italian mountains, and how she and her brother coped with their mother's funeral. My favorite was a hilarious, understated conversation with an unnamed woman who also writes crime fiction, about their favorite ways of killing people. She has, in general, made Brunetti more compassionate than she comes off in some of these essays.