"Americans in Florence" is the title of the exhibition opening in March 2012 at the Strozzi Palace Museum in Florence. With that theme in mind, I want to recommend some books: The Sixteen Pleasures (Robert Hellenga) -- The story of a young woman's journey to Florence as a “mud angel” following the flood in 1966 that destroyed so many books and artifacts. Lots of behind the scenes info on local sights woven into some pretty good fact-based fiction. A sequel, The Italian Lover (also by Robert Hellenga) is set in Florence some 30 years later when the first book is being made into a movie. A perennial book club favorite author, Hellenga is much admired for his uncanny way of getting into the mind of a female protagonist.
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