G64 Book Review of Imperfect Pairings by Jackie Townsend
Name of Book: Imperfect Pairings Author: Jackie Townsend ISBN: 978-0-9837915-2-2 Publisher: Ripetta Press Type of book: Italy, 2000s, career, marriage, pragmatic life, America, Italian man/American woman pairing, family Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Winner, Chick Lit, Indie Reader Discovery Awards 2013 Can love cross borders? In "Imperfect Pairings" a woman’s love for an Italian leaves her confronting this question. He’s Jack in America, but he’s Giovanni in Italy; understanding him means understanding his culture, his language. It means losing the foundations of her identity to become entangled in the deep-rooted vines of his family’s troubled past when she’d vowed to remain disentangled. Her career and autonomy had always come first, and she fell in love thinking she could control it, not give in to it. Is she losing herself? Or is she finally giving in to the woman she’d been all along. This is an adult love story, one that will leave you thi...