The Traces by Mairead Small Staid

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/72097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traces Author: Mairead Small Staid Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins Release date: 01-04-23 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her.