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Under The Tuscan Sun - At Home In Italy
by Frances Mayes
I wanted to read this because I remember loving the movie. The movie came out about the same time my grandma chose to divorce my verbally/emotionally abusive grandpa. I chose to start reading this about the same time I was starting to get the resolve to choose to do the same as my grandma. Turns out that despite being a huge plot point of the movie, divorce is hardly mentioned and really not even important to the story of the book at all. That being said it shares the same settings and some characters. To an extent. Pretty much everything I loved in the movie is missing from the book. Everything I liked in the book was something a travel documentary would have shown better. That being said most travel documentaries have more plot too. It's a home renovation story about a college professor somehow being able to afford an Italian villa and olive oil farm. And then you realize where she's inherited the money from when she mentions her southern roots and the elderly black live in made from her childhood....yikes everything she flashes back to about her childhood made me cringe the rest of the book. Besides being a companion to a tough life transition it's boring no plot pretty scenery, meh.