THE PERUGIAN TRANSFORMATION: How 8 Weeks of Italian Improved 21 Lives

THE PERUGIAN TRANSFORMATION They came to Perugia to learn Italian. None of them expected how much they would learn from one another.They arrive in an ancient Italian hill city carrying different languages, different histories, and very different reasons for being there.Daniel is a sixty-eight-year-old widower wondering what comes after the life he spent decades building. Sofia is engaged to a man she may no longer want to marry. Kenji is hiding the writer he longs to become. Anna is beginning to understand the difference between love and control. Vicente's restaurant-and the future he built around it-is failing. Sara has come carrying an old photograph and questions about a father she never knew.Italian brings them together. Perugia does the rest.Classrooms spill into cafés, markets, kitchens, music, football, train rides and late-night dinners. Mistakes become conversations. Friendships cross generations and continents. Romances begin where nobody planned them. Secrets surface. And people who were strangers discover that what one person knows, another may desperately need.For eight weeks, their separate realities become a shared one.They cannot solve every problem for one another. They cannot erase grief, debt, family history, loneliness, or uncertainty. But they can listen. They can challenge one another. They can offer courage when someone else's is running low. And sometimes they can help another person see a possibility that was impossible to see alone.They came to Italy believing they were there to learn how to speak.Perugia taught them how profoundly one life can improve another one.THE PERUGIAN TRANSFORMATION is a warm international ensemble novel about friendship, love, reinvention, belonging-and how twenty-one lives can change one another during eight unforgettable weeks in Italy.