Villa Coco

“This charmed my socks off. The Baronessa genuinely got a laugh out of me at the end. Will reread.”

“Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer, it’s a perfect summer read that’s both a Tuscan coming of age romp and a poetic look at how the choices of youth define adulthood. I laughed, I cried, I spent time on google Earth exploring off-the-beaten-track Italian villages. Buona!”

“So funny and charming. Read it and fall in love with the characters.”

“Pleasant, escape-worthy, and completely delightful. Escape to Italy with a mischievous old countess and the young American roped into her schemes. “She was urging me to share that, but not unprocessed, unfiltered so that it remained in its crude, original form of pain and sorrow, plunked down like a bottle of homemade wine. You must tell it again another time. Made better, not just for the sake of the listener but for the sake of the teller. To have mastered the story. It is the work of the metallurgist to extract the gold from a clump of earth, and so it was the work of the speaker, I understood at last, to extract and refine, from the admixed events of love and life, the comedy.””

“Utterly charming book!”