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Gr 9 Up—This is an intense and ultimately hopeful look at a debilitating mental disorder and a family in crisis. The setting is Florence, where the Caras, Americans from Philadelphia are residing while the professor researches the 1966 flood that nearly destroyed the storied city. His precocious children should be thriving there, especially his daughter and biggest fan, but 17-year-old Nadia is in deep trouble. She has been isolating herself, slipping out on her own, and stealing random items that she compulsively weaves into elaborate nests. She cannot explain her behavior and seems to be losing her ability to speak ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Nadia Cara’s family is living in Florence, Italy, while her historian father researches the devastating flood of 1966. Here Nadia begins to develop a rare neurological disorder that inhibits language skills and also drives compulsions (she steals items from all over the city) and obsessions (notably with a mysterious boy named Benedetto, whom her family doubts is real). But another symptom of frontotemporal dementia is increased creativity: “t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Living in Florence while her historian father researches the city's devastating 1966 flood, seventeen-year-old Nadia develops a rare neurological disorder...Log In or Sign Up to Read More