Jane Christmas
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Back in 2000, Jane Christmas was, like millions of others, an exhausted single working mother with a punishing agenda of work, domestic, and parenting duties. Weekdays were an urban triathlon, weekends evaporated into mile-long to-do lists. Jane found herself drained, living beyond her means emotionally, physically, and financially. She dreamed of a simpler life, but, like everyone else, worried about the consequences of disconnecting from the frenetic...
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English
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The author and her strong-willed mother embark on a month-long road trip. "As the two zip along the winding Amalfi Coast, traverse St. Peter's Square in Rome, bounce over the wavves to Sicily, and pad around a rented trullo in Alberobello --walker, biscuits, shawls, and medications in tow -- the bickering and bitterness of years past bubble to the surface."-- Cover, p.4.