History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini! One Woman's Story of Fate and Survival Author: Ralph Webster Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Createspace Release Date: 2018 Pages: 413 Source: This book was given to me by the author in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Goodreads Choice Nominee Ralph Webster tells the true story of his grandmother’s desperate journey from her life at the Pensione Alexandra in Naples to America - after Mussolini and the Fascists join with Hitler - and as countries across the world close their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing the spread of Nazi evil.      In 1934, at age fifty-one, Elsa’s comfortable life in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy changes remarkably when she and her husband, Paul, purchase the Pensione Alexandria overlooking the Mediterranean in Naples. Though German Jews, they are embraced by their Italian neighbors, and for the next several years, the pensione flourishes and becomes their perch to observe the world’s events. Travel...

     Today's guest writer is Ralph Webster. He is the author of A Smile in One Eye . His latest novel, One More Moon will be released on February 28th. The novel tells the story of his grandmother’s desperate journey from her life at the Pensione Alexandra in Naples to America. Mr. Webster explains the approach he took in writing from a female perspective in One More Moon. Female or Male Perspective?      Whose voice?  A woman’s or a man’s?      This past week I was asked “how was writing One More Moon different from what I’d experienced writing the last book?”  It’s a curious question - one that I find myself reflecting upon now and certainly something that I was not overly conscious of when I was writing.  Had I considered the difference, would it have changed the way I wrote One More Moon ?      Old habits are hard to break.  I can’t say the way I approached the writing changed much - the way...