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protagonist. So I thought, let me try this
again, this time with a genre I am familiar
with: mystery. And I wanted to make it
funny. Then I remem-
bered my Bavarian Aunt
Poldi, who moved to
Sicily when she turned
;;. She was a very funny,
glamorous and dramatic
woman. At that moment
I immediately knew I
would write a funny mys-
tery with Auntie Poldi as
a protagonist and myself as a clumsy,
nerdy narrator.”
Giordano, who has written several
other novels, adds, “It’s a story about
Sicily and its magic and quirky absurdi-
ties. It’s a story about a warm-hearted,
dramatic woman in her ;;s who still lives
her life to the fullest. It’s a story about the
magic of failing. And it’s a tender story of
reconnection between a cool aunt and her
nerdy nephew.”
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MY LIFE HAS hit a comfortable stride, so when
I want some surprises I
turn to a good mystery.
I can’t stop talking about
the book Auntie Poldi
and the Sicilian Lions, by
author Mario Giordano.
Auntie Poldi, having just
turned ;;, retires to
Sicily hoping for quiet,
Recently The Connection had the
opportunity to ask Giordano about the
book. Here’s what he had to say about the
inspiration for the character Auntie Poldi.
“I was a little bit like the nephew in
Auntie Poldi. For many years I, too, wanted
to write a big multigenerational family
saga. It would be about Sicily, Germany,
immigration, history, whatever. But it just
wasn’t working: I didn’t have a real story or
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