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Six Days in Rome by Francesca Giacco
4.0
✨ Review ✨ Six Days in Rome by Francesca Giacco
I love traveling alone and this brings back all those feelings of exploring new places alone, but it also makes you sit in those feelings of aloneness - sometimes they are comfortable and sometimes they aren't. This book so brilliantly immerses you in those feelings, and I loved it.
The story follows Emilia, a 30-something New Yorker, on her six day trip through Rome, a trip she had planned to take with her boyfriend Michael but now that they've split up, she's visiting alone. In semi-stream-of-consciousness, we follow her not only through Rome but through the depths of her memories as she explores her recent relationship and break-up, her fraught relationship with her singer father and the rest of her family, and her feelings of solitude, creativity, and professional expression.
Emilia meets John, another ex-pat, and their stories weave in and out as Emilia adventures through Rome and explores her feelings, and considers her past, her present, and her future.
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Genre: women's fiction, literary fiction
Location: Rome
Reminds me of: Half-Blown Rose
Pub Date: out now
This for sure isn't a book for everyone - the very long chapters, the semi-stream of consciousness format, the way it meanders through past and present is artsy and evocative and thoughtful. It especially resonated for me as someone who has spent time traveling alone.
The descriptions of Rome - its people, sights, travel, and more - were really beautiful and put you right in the middle of the city. This isn't a book to shy away from the experience of place. The writing is really lovely and I enjoyed reading it.
Read this if you like:
⭕️ travel stories and descriptions of cheese
⭕️ stream of consciousness style of writing
⭕️ narratives of self discovery
⭕️ Italy / Rome
Thanks to Grand Central and #netgalley for an advanced copies of this book!
I love traveling alone and this brings back all those feelings of exploring new places alone, but it also makes you sit in those feelings of aloneness - sometimes they are comfortable and sometimes they aren't. This book so brilliantly immerses you in those feelings, and I loved it.
The story follows Emilia, a 30-something New Yorker, on her six day trip through Rome, a trip she had planned to take with her boyfriend Michael but now that they've split up, she's visiting alone. In semi-stream-of-consciousness, we follow her not only through Rome but through the depths of her memories as she explores her recent relationship and break-up, her fraught relationship with her singer father and the rest of her family, and her feelings of solitude, creativity, and professional expression.
Emilia meets John, another ex-pat, and their stories weave in and out as Emilia adventures through Rome and explores her feelings, and considers her past, her present, and her future.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: women's fiction, literary fiction
Location: Rome
Reminds me of: Half-Blown Rose
Pub Date: out now
This for sure isn't a book for everyone - the very long chapters, the semi-stream of consciousness format, the way it meanders through past and present is artsy and evocative and thoughtful. It especially resonated for me as someone who has spent time traveling alone.
The descriptions of Rome - its people, sights, travel, and more - were really beautiful and put you right in the middle of the city. This isn't a book to shy away from the experience of place. The writing is really lovely and I enjoyed reading it.
Read this if you like:
⭕️ travel stories and descriptions of cheese
⭕️ stream of consciousness style of writing
⭕️ narratives of self discovery
⭕️ Italy / Rome
Thanks to Grand Central and #netgalley for an advanced copies of this book!