{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-the-john-m-glionna-9781599542508","title":"In the Land of the Midday Sun: An American Grandson's Search for his Southern Italian Roots","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Italy of the John M. Glionna's ancestors cannot be found in the museums of Florence, among treasures shaped by the exquisite touch of da Vinci and Michelangelo, but a world away, on the peninsula's infamous boot. Their hands gnarled from planting pomodori, aglio and melanzana, his forefathers were peasant-farmers from the agrarian south - that other Italy - dirt-poor and uneducated, a land with a history of witch's spells and pagan gods. For them, working the earth wasn't art, it was a fundamental duty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2023, Glionna experienced a cultural awakening: he travelled to his grandfather's home village to explore the landscape where his roots run centuries-deep. As he meets distant relatives, he asks questions echoed by all Americans exploring their ancestral homeland: \"Who are these people?\" \"Who am I?\" As a veteran Los Angeles Times journalist in search of his long-repressed Italianitá, he travels far off the tourist map, where he examines his grandfather's motives for emigrating. Beyond poverty and disease, he learns, southerners of his era faced a historic discrimination from their own countrymen that also drove them abroad. The book examines his father's upbringing as a child of immigrants and focuses on a realization that the author, like his father and grandfather, is proudly, deeply Italian, southern Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John M. Glionna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1599542501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781599542508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bordighera Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"John M. Glionna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440697749759,"sku":"9781599542508","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bbd4f0ed-6e6e-4de2-aae8-d75db8493a00.jpg?v=1777184202","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-land-of-the-john-m-glionna-9781599542508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}