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One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Riverhead Hardcover
February 2010
On Sale: February 18, 2010
Featuring: Paula; John
272 pages
ISBN: 1594488975
EAN: 9781594488979
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the
Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment
and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the
extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and
friendship. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years
later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the
wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their
Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting on an
uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by
sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds
in less than a year, the process of healing had just begun.
Unable to regain his equilibrium, he sank into a deep
sadness that reverberated throughout their relationship. It
was the abrupt end of what they'd known together, and the
beginning of a new phase of life neither had planned for.
All of a sudden, Paula was forced to reexamine her
marriage, her husband, and herself. Paula began to reconsider all of her previous assumptions
about healing. She discovered that sometimes patience can
be a vice, anger a virtue. That sometimes it is vital to
make demands of the sick, that they show signs of getting
better. And she rediscovered the importance of the most
fundamental of human rituals: the daily sharing of food
around the family table. A universal story of hope and healing, Keeping the Feast is
an account of one couple's triumph over tragedy and
illness, and a celebration of the simple rituals of life,
even during the worst life crises. Beautifully written and
tremendously moving, Paula's story is a testament to the
extraordinary sustaining powers of food and love, and to
the stubborn belief that there is always an afterward,
there is always hope.
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