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American English, Italian Chocolate is a memoir in essays beginning in the American Midwest and ending in north central Italy. In sharply rendered vignettes, Rick Bailey reflects on donuts and ducks, horses and car crashes, outhouses and EKGs. He travels all night from Michigan to New Jersey to attend the funeral of a college friend. After a vertiginous climb, he staggers in clogs across the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In a trattoria in the hills above the Adriatic, he ruminates on the history and glories of beans, from Pythagoras to Thoreau, from the Saginaw valley to the Province of Urbino.
Bailey is a bumbling extra in a college production of Richard III. He is a college professor losing touch with a female student whose life is threatened by her husband. He is a father tasting samples of his daughter's wedding cake. He is a son witnessing his aging parents' decline. He is the husband of an Italian immigrant who takes him places he never imagined visiting, let alone making his own. At times humorous, at times bittersweet, Bailey's ultimate subject is growing and knowing, finding the surprise and the sublime in the ordinary detail of daily life.
Contents
1. Big White Birds 2. Boy Scouts, Ringworm, and Paris 3. Sound Off 4. Kissing Age 5. There Will Be Horses 6. Sick Wild 7. The Man from Glad, Car Crash, Amnesia 8. Clinical 9. Psyched 10. Love and Breakup in the Time of Watergate 11. Love at First Shite 12. Feet First 13. For Donna, Ibsen, Pepys, Leviation 14. The Soft Imperative 15. Third-Wave Coffee 16. Wisdom Teeth and Encyclopaedia Britannica 17. What's Up with Dramatic-Value Vomit? 18. Old Houses, New Residents 19. Bee Spree 20. Hello, Mr. President 21. Chemical Neutral 22. Pure Corn 23. Fly 24. The Honey Room 25. Bridge Failure, Heart Attack, Fava Beans 26. Monkey, Nailing Biting, Jesus 27. Cardio, Lightbulbs, and a Funeral 28. The Rule of One 29. Water Me 30. Feathers 31. The Quality of Your Sleep 32. My Father, Going Deaf 33. No Secrets, Victoria 34. Flip-Flops and the Leaning Tower of Pisa 35. Ravioli, Richard III, and a Dead Bird 36. Apri la Porta 37. Buongiorno 38. What's New 39. Small Beans 40. American English, Italian Chocolate
