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Halfway To Each Other: How A Year In Italy Brought Our Family Home (2009)

by Susan Pohlman(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0824947800 (ISBN13: 9780824947804)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

GuidepostsBooks

review 1: An upscale couple in Los Angelos are suffering. Their marriage is breaking apart, the family is losing its bonds, so they decide to divorce or make a great change. They move to Italy. Their expectation is that they can live for two years with the proceeds from the sale of their home. So they move to Genoa. (neither one is Italian). They bring their two children. Of course moving to a place where they don't know the language, the customs and the expectations brings its own challenges. But they are also able to spend time with each other. The children are not running off to friends' houses, playing computer games in their rooms, being driven to one activity to another. Dad is not working many hours every day. He is now involved in their home lives. And the couple have ti... moreme for each other. They are able to discover the reasons why they married each other in the first place.Moving to a new place means letting go of control. You have no idea what can happen. This solution would not work for most couples, but it did work for this couple.
review 2: Very conversational and well written memoir about what happens when you choose to try to save your marriage by going to Italy instead of sticking around the Los Angeles machine, sinking into despair. The story of how Susan and her entire family found not only the strength to stay together but strength in themselves as well, was truly inspirational. I don't read much memoir but this book drew me in with its glorious descriptions of life in Italy as well as dialogue so real it was as if Susan tape recorded their year there to transcribe it later. Anyone looking for an uplifting story where the woman doesn't need to leave the man for both of them to become strong, independent people who fall right back in love with each other, this book is a must read. Happy endings through foreign struggles abound! less

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