num_pages: 330
description: An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs--both rural and urban--from the perspectives of both a "foreigner" and a resident
language: English
title: On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
titlecomplete: On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
genres: Biography, History, Italy, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, Food, Memoir
ratings_count: 488
places: Sicily
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.