“What made you decide it was time to tell the full story of your family’s experiences?” “I recently found a note I wrote in my journal in 2008. My second novel, FALLING IN LOVE WITH NATASSIA, was published and I was figuring out what to focus on next: new fiction or a family memoir? I had notes for both projects, but about the memoir, I wrote this in my journal: ‘That memoir is the book I’ve been afraid of all my life.’ When I found that note I knew I didn’t have a choice. I had to move toward what frightened me.” Don’t miss this littsburgh Q&A with Anna Monardo about her newest book AFTER ITALY: A FAMILY MEMOIR OF ARRANGED MARRIAGE—and if you haven’t already, be sure to register for Anna Monardo’s Made Local event, happening this Thursday at 6 p.m. at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall.  AFTER ITALY is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, M...