LA VIA DELLE SORELLE

A captivating and inspiring memoir that tells the universe of female friendship.

For every woman, the relationship with friends is a foundational one, capable of determining the direction of an entire existence. There are the friend-sisters, united by a symbiotic bond; the accomplices of challenges and transgressions; the companions in whose reflection one can recognize oneself; but also the betrayal ones, because they know how to strike at the point of greatest weakness: the genius friends, the fatal ones. A kaleidoscope of tales in which reread our lives, rethink the relationships that made us grow up, recognize unmentionable aspects of us that only certain friendships have the strength to touch. La via delle sorelle by Gaia Manzini is both a literary investigation of a feeling too often taken for granted and a vibrant memoir dedicated to all the friends who have known how to seek and recognize each other. A limpid and never rhetorical gaze, where Gaia Manzini aligns the friendships of her life, making her the woman she is today, alongside those of important women, poets, artists, explorers: from Margaret of Savoy who climbed mountains to Pippa Bacca who wanted to marry the whole world to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Natalia Ginzburg and many others. Because friendship is always a journey to the center of one's heart and friends are mirrors in which read and understand our own lives. Gaia Manzini lives and works in Milan; she has written Nudo di famiglia (Fandango 2009, longlisted for Premio Chiara), La scomparsa di Lauren Armstrong (Fandango 2012, Premio Strega selection), Diario di una mamma in pappa (Laterza 2014), Ultima la luce (Mondadori 2017). Her latest novel is Nessuna parola dice di noi (Bompiani, 2021). She is a contributor at "Il Foglio" and "L'Espresso".