Theboxgirl: Her Side Of The Story

Read 214 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. From the author of forbidden notebook, alba de céspedes, a richly told novel she called “t… Her side of the story—published in italy as dalla parte di lei—even spun off into a regular advice column in the magazine epoca. The author’s prescience finds its footing. As she looks back on her life, alessandra corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in italy, the resistance, and the fall of mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her.

She has a kind of doppelgänger in alessandro, the brother who came before her and tragically drowned at a young age. It's interesting how his loss has a different meaning for every family. Alessandra witnesses her mother, an aspiring concert pianist, suffer from the inability to escape her oppressive marriage. Later, she is sent away to live with her father's relatives in the. Alessandra grows up in a bustling apartment block in 1930’s rome with a shared courtyard, where everyone knows everyone, spending most of her time alone in the apartment in the care. Growing up in a crowded apartment block in 1930s rome, she watches as her mother’s dreams of becoming a concert pianist are stifled by marriage. When her father’s traditional family try to. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the partisan struggle in the second world war, her side of the story is a profound, devastating story of one woman’s determination to carve her own path.