Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

In the essay ‘My Vocation,’ Ginzburg wrote: “Now I no longer wanted to write like a man, because I had had children and I thought I knew a great many things about tomato sauce, and even if I didn’t put them in my story it helped my vocation that I knew them.”

This book is a novelized memoir of fascism in Italy from the vantage point of someone who knows a great many things about tomato sauce.