Beatrice Luzzi she is an artist who has had at least two lives, or rather two seasons of great popularity: as a girl, as an actress Liveand as a woman, as the dominator of Big Brother two seasons ago. In the end she didn’t win but created a community, the Briciole, to which her second book on motherhood is aimed – but certainly not only to them: A double familypublished by De Nigris.
Not a sugary fairy tale nor a survival manual for perfect parents, but a frank and brilliant story. Luzzi, loved by the public for her authenticity and sensitivity, signs a new text which is at the same time a diary-confession and a manual for dealing with two pregnancies, a separation, a dog and two teenagersValentino and Elia, in joy and balance between motherhood and profession.
The author talks about 17 years of motherhood with an open heartalternating moments of real life with considerations on the role of today’s woman. Practical and existential advice experienced first hand: from emotions to bureaucracies, from newborns to teenagers, from fairy tales to social media.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Hers is an encouragement to enjoy motherhood with conscious lightnessthat precious extra opportunity that many women are missing, an invitation to listen to themselves, rather than the expectations of others.
A double family it tells of a flexible family structure, capable of adapting over the years to changes in its members and in the surrounding societya new structural modality of the family capable of maintaining intimate and authentic bonds as well as free from those formal schematisms now incapable of responding to the needs of contemporaneity.
“A family of two squares” by Beatrice Luzzi (Armando De Nigris Editore).
A vision of parenthood in which the role of the father Alessandro, who also writes some dense paragraphs of the book, is revealed today more than ever to be crucial for the stability of the emotional nucleus, well delineated also by a short yet incisive paragraph written by Luzzi’s firstborn.
A practical guide that has the plot of a novel and the sincerity of an intimate diaryand which reminds us that perfection doesn’t exist, but authenticity does, and it can be the sweetest and most courageous key to growing together with your children.
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