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Praise for Mexico, A Love Story

Twenty-two distinctive and unique voices sweep the reader through an exhausting and passionate range of emotions. The book is alive with love and laughter, tears and tenderness, deathand voices from the spirit world. Reading it is like inhaling a culture in all its dimensions. Like the richness of Mexico, the book sizzles with the heat and heart of the Mexican people and pulses through women in love.

Rita Golden Gelman, author of Tales of a Female Nomad

This insightful collection of stories is filled with vivid descriptions and engaging characters. Women write about their love affair with Mexico and reveal a complicated lover imbued with beauty, passion, danger, and excitement that will lead them to a transformative experience.

Rose Castillo Guilbault, author of Farmworkers Daughter: Growing Up Mexican In America

Nearly two dozen American women wander into the vast worldnext-door that is our neighbor to the south. With equal measures of curiosity and courage, they journey to sunny resorts, grim penitentiaries, and time-challenged villages. Like them, you will be enchanted and amazed.

Hctor Tobar, author of Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States

With open minds and hearts, these writers engage Mexico in all its sensual, spiritual, confounding glory and emerge transformed.

Gina Hyams, author of In a Mexican Garden

This wide-ranging collection of gringa experiences in Mexico shines a light upon, and becomes a part of, one of the most charged cultural conversations on earth: that between North Americans and their southern neighbors.

Tony Cohan, author of On Mexican Time and Mexican Days

In this book, a love of Mexico flows from many springs. An L.A. teenager goes home to Oaxaca once a year. A woman goes on vacation and stays seventeen years. Some fall in love with colors, food, the sea; some discover themselves in their interactions with the people they meet. What is common to all their stories is an openness to experience, an eagerness to transcend the familiar self. Sometimes theres hurt, too, because real travel, like real life, is not covered with a warranty. These wonderful myriad voices remind us that getting away is sometimes the real route home.

Sandra Scofield, author of Gringa and Occasions of Sin: A Memoir

Praise for Italy, A Love Story

A multifaceted look at the charms of the popular Mediterranean country through the eyes of twenty-eight noted women writers. They contribute appealing personal stories of their travels to various parts of the country.

Santa Barbara News-Press

In this thrilling and layered new collection, women... explore and describe in loving prose individual infatuations with a land that is both complicated by and adored for a rich tradition.

Sun Journal

Camille Cusumano has assembled a unique cast of women writing about their encounters with Italy. Together, they come close to defining that indefinable somethingthe people, the culture, the fit of people and culture with their landscapethat draws the traveler again and again to this land.

Lawrence DiStasi

When I first discovered Florence, with all the bridges except the Ponte Vecchio still destroyed, I fell in love. This proves the experience of loving Italy is not confined to women. But the women in this book offer a useful perspective, highly flavored, with engaging, erotic implications.... The book is great voyeuristic fun.

Herbert Gold, author of Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth

Praise for France, A Love Story

This is a very readable collection.... Tales are alternately loving, witty, nostalgic, and, yes, occasionally swooning.

San Francisco Chronicle

The heart of this book is in the maturity of its voices of experience.

Boston Globe

In this beautiful collection, women share their experiences firsthand, reflecting on the ways Frances unique culture has enriched and enchanted their lives.

France Today

This book is an evocative gathering of short pieces from twenty-five female writers.... This is a collection that will be appreciated by the Francophiles among us.

Toronto Globe and Mail

Introduction

Greece, it has been said, was where art became inseparable from life. How often do we invoke the Platonic ideal or the Golden Age of Pericles as the highest standard by which to measure the merit of an idea, a work of art, a way of living? We do this because Greece has bequeathed civilization unparalleled gifts of beauty and wisdom, from its delicate pottery, gracefully sculpted statues, and the well-proportioned Parthenon and Acropolis to the enduring literature of Homer, Sappho, and Sophocles, not to mention Socratic discourse, Aristotelian thought, the first Olympic Games, our own democracy, and lets not forget moussaka, spanakopita, and souvlaki.

So it follows that each travel essay in this collection is a unique blend of artistry and life. For example, in Alison Cadburys story we enter Greece by way of her fantasy writers retreat, a quiet home in the Greek countryside. Ah, but theres a crack in this idyll, and he goes by the name of Kosmas. The ninety-year-old landlord drops by unbidden and shouts, Wake up, lazy girl... and make me a coffee! When you learn why he does this, you understand why she allows this natty Greek gent to continue this way.

This writer, along with the other authors in this anthology, offers the reader her Greek experience as a slice of life that transcends the typical surface treatment of the go-here, go-there travel article.

Katherina Audley takes the reader to that ubiquitous corner of Greecethe taverna. She relates her amazing tale almost entirely from atop a bar, where she dances nightly even as her inner anthropologist observes rituals such as smashing dishes or making kamaki, the Greek mans prerogative to attempt courtship with every female who crosses his path. And theres Linda Hefferman, a strange blond girl wearing pants, who carries all the way from her hometown mortician an envelope of American dollars and family memorabilia for this former Greek patriots cousin. The ensuing task of eating the grateful Greek familys lovingly prepared goat entrails resonates as a metaphor for the difficulty of swallowing parts of a culture alien to our palate. Yet, Hefferman persists.

But Pamela S. Stamatiou is the paragon of such persistence. Her story about her romance and marriage to a Greek man is that bittersweet sort, offering up the intricacies of Greek ways and the pain and pleasure of assimilation in an old-world patriarchal culture that most of us will never experience.

Like Stamatiou, Colleen McGuire is an expat married to a Greek manand, for better or worse, to her bicycle. It is purely delightful to travel with her by way of her two-wheeled steed to many of the Greek isles, including Lesvos, Pserimos, Kos (the Dodecanese homeland of Hippocrates), and Paros, where she climbs to the Valley of the Butterflies. Recalling how the Greeks raised athleticism to an art form, we want to cheer her on when she debates whether to accept the challenge of a day-long, 150-mile bike odyssey.

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