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Greece, A Love Story: Women Write about the Greek Experience by Cynthia Greenberg, Camille Cusumano
jeanetterenee's review against another edition
4.0
The editor did an excellent job of selecting these essays. They reflect a great variety of experiences and locales in Greece. There are 19 pieces, each by a different writer. Don't be put off by the book title. The "love story" refers to love of Greece, not sappy romances.
My favorites, in the order they appear in the book:
1)"Kostas and the Deep Sea"
Just overall rowdy fun!
2)"Adespotos"
The author had Greek parents but was adopted as an infant by Americans. As an adult she traveled to the mountains of Greece to visit the place where her life began.
3)"Siga Siga"
An interesting overview of the bicycling experience in Greece.
4)"A UFO in Greece"
The author married a Greek man and describes the gradual process of adjusting as a foreigner and being accepted.
5)"Rhodes's Lost Little Jerusalem"
A short but powerful piece that made me cry. The author visited the Kahal Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes and had a chance encounter with a Jewish woman who had been one of those rounded up by the Nazis in 1944. There was once a Jewish community of 2,000 in Rhodes. Now there are thirty.
I enjoyed all of the other pieces to varying degrees, with one exception:
"At the Seashore with Medea: A Marriage Unravels in Athens"
Full of self-pity over an unexpected divorce, this miserable thing didn't belong in the book. It was really all about herself and not about Greece.
My favorites, in the order they appear in the book:
1)"Kostas and the Deep Sea"
Just overall rowdy fun!
2)"Adespotos"
The author had Greek parents but was adopted as an infant by Americans. As an adult she traveled to the mountains of Greece to visit the place where her life began.
3)"Siga Siga"
An interesting overview of the bicycling experience in Greece.
4)"A UFO in Greece"
The author married a Greek man and describes the gradual process of adjusting as a foreigner and being accepted.
5)"Rhodes's Lost Little Jerusalem"
A short but powerful piece that made me cry. The author visited the Kahal Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes and had a chance encounter with a Jewish woman who had been one of those rounded up by the Nazis in 1944. There was once a Jewish community of 2,000 in Rhodes. Now there are thirty.
I enjoyed all of the other pieces to varying degrees, with one exception:
"At the Seashore with Medea: A Marriage Unravels in Athens"
Full of self-pity over an unexpected divorce, this miserable thing didn't belong in the book. It was really all about herself and not about Greece.
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