Forbidden Bread: A Memoir (Paperback) by Erica Johnson Debeljak

from winecat

Wonderful read, I felt as if I was there with Erica making her transition from her old life to her new, struggling with language, customs and all the tiny but important things that come with moving to a new country. I will recommend this book to all my book loving friends.

from clamairy

What a treat this book turned out to be. The only reason I'm not giving it a full 5 stars is because it was slow to grab me. I even put it down once and picked up something else. I was afraid this was going to be a memoir all about emotional turmoil, when, in fact it's more of a love song to Slov...

from BaileysAndBooks

In 1993, financial analyst Erica Johnson Debeljak makes a life altering move from her friends and her job in NYC to travel across a geographical and cultural divide to the new(ish) country of Slovenia, all in the name of love to her Slovenian poet that she met at a party in 1991. Given this set-u...

from RoseCityReader

Slovenia was a toddler of a country when Erica Johnson arrived there in 1993 to marry her black-haired poet lover, Aleš Debeljak. Slovenia had only won its independence from Yugoslavia two years earlier; war still raged in Croatia and Bosnia to the south. What was she thinking? Johnson Debeljak a...

from winecat

Wonderful read, I felt as if I was there with Erica making her transition from her old life to her new, struggling with language, customs and all the tiny but important things that come with moving to a new country. I will recommend this book to all my book loving friends.