Natalia Ginzburg (1916 – 1991), ​“who authored twelve books and two plays; who, because of anti-Semit­ic laws, some­times couldn’t pub­lish under her own name; who raised five chil­dren and lost her hus­band to Fas­cist tor­ture; who was elect­ed to the Ital­ian par­lia­ment as an inde­pen­dent in her late sixties―this woman does not take her present con­di­tions as a giv­en. She asks us to fight back against them, to be brave and res­olute. She instructs us to ask for bet­ter, for our­selves and for our chil­dren” (Belle Bog­gs, The New York­er).