Dandelions

Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned?

In Dandelions, Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations' worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. At the heart of this book is her grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress and a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges.

A family memoir rich in folk legends, food, art, politics and literature, Dandelions heralds the arrival of an exceptional writer: bold, joyful and wise.

Author: Thea Lenarduzzi
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781913097974
ISBN10: 1913097978
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical

About the Author
Thea Lenarduzzi is a writer, editor and broadcaster, primarily for the Times Literary Supplement. Dandelions, winner of the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, is her first book.