{"id":7365,"date":"2016-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2020-07-09T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:40:36","slug":"love-and-gelato-by-jenna-evans-welch-book-review-italy-family-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=7365","title":{"rendered":"Love and Gelato, by Jenna Evans Welch (book review) – Italy! Family! Really??"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Travel abroad!
\nMeet her missing dad!
\nRead mom’s journal and wonder if…<\/p>\n

After her mom’s death, Lina is bombarded with changes – moving to Italy<\/a> where her mother studied photography in college, meeting the dad she never knew, maybe even falling in love!<\/p>\n

But it’s all so fast, and the entries in her mom’s journal are like a puzzle that she must solve, even if the answers raise more questions!<\/p>\n

Family secrets – unearth them or let them stay hidden?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Love and Gelato \/ Jenna Evans Welch. Simon Pulse, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Leaving Seattle for sunny Italy, Lina mourns her late mother, worries about meeting her father for the first time, and is sure that going to school in a new country will be terrible, until her dad’s co-worker brings the journal that Mom kept while she was a photography student here and Lina meets the cute Italian-American guy next door.<\/p>\n

Mom’s journal brings up so many questions – what does “I made the wrong choice” mean?<\/p>\n

Her dad Howard is a nice man, but why doesn’t Lina have even one physical feature like him?<\/p>\n

Ren helps her find all the places Mom mentions in her journal, but is he just interested in Lina as a friend?<\/p>\n

Not just a simple “American teen in Europe for summer meets true love” story, Lina’s search for answers as she tries to find a future without Mom is by turns heart-wrenching and hopeful. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel abroad! Meet her missing dad! Read mom’s journal and wonder if… After her mom’s death, Lina is bombarded with changes – moving to Italy where her mother studied photography in college, meeting the dad she never knew, maybe even falling in love! But it’s all so fast, and the entries in her mom’s journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,22,4,11,20,5,37,16,18,40,44,46,43,158,39,49,184,15,9,21,73,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-italy","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}