Learning Italian: A Journey in Five Books

This morning I was reading about Jhumpa Lahiri's new non-fiction book In Other Words, which is out this week. I've been looking forward to this book for a long time. It'sa chronicle of Lahiri's experiences of learning to speak and write in Italian, which began with a trip to Italy in 1994 and ended with her moving her whole family to Rome to be able to learn the language well enough to write in it, a personal challenge Lahiri set herself and finally managed to achieve (her book is written in...