Italian Days is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books ever writtenamprdquoa journey down the Italian peninsula that immerses us in the inexhaustible plenty of that culture and the equally bountiful intelligence and sensibility of its author. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison noted essayist journalist and fiction writer brings us a fascinating mixture of history politics folklore food architecture arts and literature studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From modern fashionable Milan to beautiful historic Rome with its modern traffic and even today its sudden displays of faith to primitive brooding Calabria Barbara Grizzuti Harrison reveals in all its glory and confusion her Italy the country of her origins where the keys to her past are held by those who never left. Beautifully and eloquently rendered Italian Days is a deeply engaging travelogue but it is much more as well. It is the story of a return homeamprdquoof friends family and faithamprdquoand of the search for the good life that propels all of us on our journeys wherever we are.