A Thousand Days in Venice: An unexpected romance [Paperback] de Blasi, Marlena

At 44, freshly divorced and certain she's done with romance, Marlena de Blasi walks into a Venetian café and locks eyes with a handsome stranger. He doesn't speak English. She doesn't speak Italian. Within hours, Fernando asks her to stay. Within weeks, she's leaving her life in St. Louis to move into his crumbling 14th-century apartment. What follows is a love story soaked in Venetian mist, market-fresh figs, and the kind of impulsive decisions that usually end in disaster — except this one doesn't. De Blasi writes with sensual precision about learning to live in a foreign city, a foreign language, and the foreign territory of late-life passion. It's part memoir, part travel writing, part proof that the Venetians are right: some things are meant to be tasted, not analyzed. For readers who loved 'Under the Tuscan Sun' or anyone who's ever wanted to blow up their life for something beautiful.