BS: Bragging - sister published

Subject: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 11:47 AM

Publication Date:October 1, 2012
In the middle of the night in a darkened airport, a tiny voice inside her head taunted her. "Do you know where your mother is?" The voice began to shriek. "I am the caregiver."

Traipsing off to visit her 91-year old father's ancestral village in northern Italy, the author, more Peter Pan than Mary Poppins, is an unlikely caregiver and in over her head escorting her elderly parents. In an endearing memoir, alternately light hearted and soulfully tearful, the family travels far beyond the picturesque backdrop of northern Italy, breaking ground on what has become a universal journey for millions of adult children—caring for the parents who raised them. They barely keep their heads above water in Venice, do battle with Comacchian eel on the Adriatic coast and play a harried game of hide and seek in Ravenna. They nourish their bodies and souls in Emilia-Romagna, best a belligerent agent in Bellagio and reflect on love and loss in winter's shadow on Lake Como. From Venice to Savona, vivid landscapes and historic venues blend with lessons from the author's childhood in a crash course on aging with grace and determination.

As a generation of baby boomers confronts the long-term care of their parents, A BRIDGE BETWEEN transcends the role of travelogue to become a socially relevant love story of devotion, acceptance, and the evolution of familial relationships.

Available from Amazon:

A Bridge Between -Northern Italy Come Hell or High Water

I am biased; but I think she did a pretty damn good job.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 12:59 PM

That is wonderful and sounds very timely and intriguing! Tell her Congratulations!!

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 01:47 PM

Brag away- I would be so proud. (It must run in the family)

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:16 PM

The title (and frontispiece) are from a poem my Dad wrote; said poem having proliferated into many, many verses since.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: gnu
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 04:00 PM

You would be remiss not to do so.

BRAVO!

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 10:16 AM

That's both amazing and wonderful, MMario. Brag away.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 11:15 AM

Now that is just eerie - I was doing a search on Amazon yesterday for something totally unrelated and that showed up in my search results. Didn't connect it with you, though, Leo. Congrats to your sister.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 11:36 AM

#1 in it's primary category; #16,575 overall (which isn't too shabby considering how many books Amazon sells.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 08:52 AM

A bridge Between

It's been fun watching the numbers change.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:12 AM

a good reason to brag

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 09 Oct 12 - 11:37 AM

The author confirmed today that it will be coming out in paperback; no date though.

It's been fun watching on Amazon though she sees more then i can - she's made sales in the UK and in France.

She's currently negotiating with some local bookstores to carry the paperback.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Oct 12 - 12:52 PM

Congrates, MMario...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 10 Oct 12 - 11:38 AM

Wow, must be great to see your work on Amazon, especially with 4 5-star reviews!

Well done, sis. Pete.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 10 Oct 12 - 11:45 AM

Wonderful my friend, congrats to her and all of your family ... wow great news

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: MMario
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 03:25 PM

Now available in paperback; and B&N should have the Nook version in a couple days.

Subject: RE: BS: Bragging - sister published
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 06:20 PM

Getting ANYTHING published has to be worth a 'Congrats' so there's one from me !