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Family Lexicon
by Natalia Ginzburg
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Ginzburg has such a concise and conversational style of writing. It feels as though you're sat in a cafe with a really interesting friend telling you lots of funny anecdotes from their life. Although this books is classified as a novel, it is more of a biography. Using the idiosyncratic phrases each family member regularly used, Ginzburg looks back on her memories of her family. At once very fun and very sad, we follow her family as they cope with as they cope with the coming and going of friendships, holidays in the mountains, the persection of Jews and non-fascists, and WW2 and its devastating aftermath.