How to Love an American Man
By: Kristine Gasbarre
Kristine Gasbarre made a New York career of dating driven, inaccessible men. When she realizes her love life will never result in happiness if she continues on the same path, she makes a big decision—relocating to Italy to discover her roots and find out what defines her adoring grandpa. But upon receiving the news of his sudden passing, she is lured away.
With nowhere left to go, Krissy returns to her small hometown for the first time in a decade to help care for her grandmother—a refined, private matriarch suf?fering from early dementia along with the loss of her husband. In her reluctant agreement to share the nearly lost love stories and transformative lessons from her rich sixty-year marriage, Krissy’s grandma becomes the one of?fering comfort as she coaches her granddaughter through the fear of loving. Grandma’s unapologetic femininity and secret giving spirit opens Krissy’s eyes about relationships, teaching her the single most important requisite for loving a man: first a woman has to learn the power of her own inner beauty.
Many of our recent books have been simply cotten. For fun and sport. We didnt think that we would get some really deep insight and espically after last months book, we really werent looking. I had found this book on a review of a website. It looked good and it sounded like a beatutiful story of how a woman reconnects with her roots. I didnt realize how much discussion it would bring up! From how we all felt about marriage to how we felt about friends, this book changed many viewpoints. I know for me personally, I felt a connection with the material. It helped me realize that my life isnt just a search for a partner but a scavenger hunt to help devlope me as an indviudal. The grandmother in the book made each one of us want to sit down and have a chat with her. the single book clubers left book club this time realizing that we are doing the right thing while waiting for Mr.Right to show up...just being us.
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