# @pghartslectures on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-05-21T12:45:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (@PghArtsLectures) — https://gondola.cc/PghArtsLectures

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“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, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to Braddock, a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s wartime as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path to international adoption.

Join us for this free event by registering at pittsburglectures.org 🔗 And watch past Made Local events on our YouTube! Find it at the link in our bio.

You can purchase AFTER ITALY from whitewhalebks, or pick up a copy at the lecture on Thursday night. 📚

This Made Local event is supported by the Heinz History Center Italian American Program and Sons & Daughters of Italy Primo Italiano Lodge 2800.

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