5/23/2023 0 Comments Frances mayes latest bookIn her latest exploration of “the meaning of home,” she focuses primarily on her own homes, including Bramasole, her childhood home in the town of Fitzgerald, Georgia, and Chatwood, the house she purchased and remodeled near Hillsborough, North Carolina, a place “with an intense sense of community.” After living in San Francisco for many decades, Mayes decided to return to the South “after a long quarrel with the place,” instigated by “racism, sexist zeitgeist, anti-intellectualism, self-satisfaction. In her international bestselling book Under the Tuscan Sun, Mayes chronicled the challenges that she and her husband, Ed, encountered while renovating an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. The bestselling author returns with another lush account of family and place.
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