An American Family in Italy: Living La Dolce Vita without Permission - Softcover

Spadoni, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1521588171 ISBN 13: 9781521588178

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

Imagine suddenly leaving a comfortable and successful job in exchange for a year of living and working in Italy. You book a flight with no definite idea of where you’ll live or work, no visa and no work permit. Further imagine taking your wife and two distinctly unenthusiastic teen daughters with you. Your colleagues begin to doubt your mental balance, and you can’t blame them. Yet somehow this family learned to work, study, speak, shop and survive in a foreign land while stumbling their way through the delicious process of learning to live like Italians—all ‟without papers.” Along the way, the author impersonates an Italian cousin, gets his family lost innumerable times and meets his own personal version of the godfather—the man who hired him and gave him an apartment. The teen daughters struggle to find themselves while attending school by day and exploring young adult nightclubs into the early morning hours—while family members fight to work out their differences. In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and Italian Neighbors, the travel memoir An American Family in Italy will appeal to families of all ages seeking adventure, challenge, a fresh start or a chance to embrace their inner Italian.

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About the Author

Paul Spadoni began his career as a journalist and photojournalist for The Gateway newspaper in Gig Harbor, Washington. After two years there, he used his on-the-job experience to become a journalism teacher. During his 31 years as a teacher, the student newspaper he advised, The Peninsula Outlook, was inducted into the scholastic journalism hall of fame.  Spadoni was named Washington Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1986, Distinguished Adviser in 1996 and Vocational Teacher of the Year in 2000. He supervised student newspapers, yearbooks and literary magazines that earned more than one hundred state and national awards. He writes a popular blog, Living (with) Abroad in Tuscany, and he is a speaker and author on the topics of Italian living and genealogy. He graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in editorial journalism and Western Washington University with an MA in education. Spadoni retired from teaching in 2010 and now manages a road maintenance business in Gig Harbor during the summer, while he lives in Italy about four months a year during the fall and spring. He is a free lance writer with articles recently published in Italian American, Fra Noi and Grapevine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1521588171
• ISBN 13: 9781521588178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188