num_pages: 329
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, Travel, Italian Literature, Italy, Food, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 488
places: Sicily
publisher: Vintage