A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 Six dangerous outcasts

Six dangerous outcasts

Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness

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A House in Sicily by Luisa Adorno Groundswell Speaker 2024 Six dangerous outcastsDuring WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their daughter a loud little dog and worrying constantly,