Family Lexican by Natalia Ginsburg

Natalia ginsburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel, family lexican while living in london in the 19 sixties. Homesick of her italian family, she summoned them in this celebration of routines and rituals,. In jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family. So that's the lexican of the title. It was published in bycakenet in the seventies, three different translations - so this book hasn't really gone away, in a sense. But im going to read the blub and marigold, you didn't write this because it was one of your predecessors who wrote it. You can criticize it as

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