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The Girl Who Said No: A Search in Sicily
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Portions of this book were previoUsly pUblished in the anthologiesTravelers’ Tales Italy: True Stories of Life on the Road(1uu8),Italy, A Love Story(Seal Press) 2005, andThe Best Women’s Travel Writing, 2008, 200u, 2010 (Travelers’ Tales), three of which were awarded gold and silver prizes by Bay Area Travel Writers in 2008 and 2010. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PUblication Data is available Upon reqUest. ISBN u78-1-60u52-172-1 (paperback) ISBN u78-1-60u52-173-8 (ebook) ISBN u78-1-60u52-174-5 (hardcover)
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For the many other Francas who have gone by other names in other places at other times. And for the most patient of midwives: Claire Fraschina and Stanley Steinberg.
Prologue
Table of Contents
Chapter I: A Hot Pink Hell Chapter II: Packing Chapter III: Approach From the West Chapter IV: Arrival Chapter V: Venerdi Santo Chapter VI: Sabato Santo Chapter VII: Pasqua Chapter VIII: Easter Monday Chapter IX: The Garden Chapter X: The Vault Chapter XI: The Shoes Weekend Chapter XII: The National Library Chapter XIII: Ill Wind Chapter XIV: Summit Plea to Aphrodite Chapter XV: The Silent and the Loud Chapter XVI: The North Coast Chapter XVII: Ruins, Bureaucrats Chapter XVIII: Planning The Getaway Chapter XIX: Bilingual Bus Ride Chapter XX: Onward Chapter XXI: Wet Scirocco Chapter XXII: Scylla and Charybdis Chapter XXIII: Rescued Chapter XXIV: Will She Speak?
Italian - English Glossary Appendix Acknowledgments About the Author
We rowed on. The Rocks were now behind; Kharybdis, too, and Skylla dropped astern. Then we were coasting the noble island of the god, where grazed those cattle with wide brows, and bounteous flocks of Helios, lord of noon, who rides high heaven. From the black ship, far still at sea, I heard the lowing of the cattle winding home and sheep bleating; and heard, too, in my heart the words of blind Teiresias of Thebes and Kirke of Aiaia; both forbade me the Island of the world’s delight, the Sun. So I spoke out in gloom to my companions: ‘Shipmates, grieving and weary though you are, listen: I had forewarning from Teiresias and Kirke, too; both told me I must shun this island of the Sun, the world’s delight. Nothing but fatal trouble shall we find here. Pull away, then, and put the land astern.’
The Odyssey Homer Book Twelve, lines 261-279 Robert Fitzgerald translation
I shall re-view Sicilia, for whose sight I have a woman’s longing.
TheWinter’s Tàle William Shakespeare Act IV Sc IV, 670-1
I thought the twenty professional Sicilian mourners were a bit much.