Bestselling author Jo Piazza recounts the weirdly wonderful and chaotic trip her family took in researching her latest book, 'The Sicilian Inheritance.'
based on my family’s stories, I decided I had to go to Sicily to solve my great-great-grandmother’s murder. I didn’t envision taking three children under 7 along with me — but once you
Traveling with kids is never a vacation. We all know that. It’s a trip; it’s a journey; it’s a dumpster fire. It’s always a learning experience but ~never~ a vacation. And moving around Sicily isn’t easy as a single adult. I’ve done the trip about a dozen times and something always goes strangely wrong. Add children into the mix, and you’re asking for it.One of the hotels we booked simply didn’t exist. Thankfully we figured it out. Our rental car came with three broken car seats.
We had a young woman named Catalina all lined up through our hotel in Scopello, but the day before, she informed us that she could only help out for a couple of hours because she was going to a rave in Palermo. When I asked if she could maybe sit the next day, she said she was going to need three days to recover.
But for all of my other research — interviews with people from my great-great grandmother’s village, forays to the actual land where she was murdered, a visit with an actual Sicilian witch to find out if she thought my own grandmother might have been a Sicilian witch — I hauled the kids along and bribed them with gelato. So much gelato.Did someone kill her like the T-Rex killed that lawyer in Jurassic Park?I dragged myself to investigate records and archives on nights of no sleep.
I also had the “difficult” task of eating all the delicious food before finishing my novel. You can never be too exacting when it comes to making sure all of your Sicilian dishes are accurate and mouth-watering. I took my kids to something like 20 restaurants.
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