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A wedding in Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Simona’s American dream seems to come true. Only reality is very different from what she had expected. Married life is a culture battle even as early as breakfast time: biscuits versus peanut butter. And then Trump and Covid came to intensify existing differences… The couple becomes a triangle: America becomes a steady, cumbersome presence. A light, fun book but that is able to describe the more deeply-rooted differences between Italy and the U.S. as seen from a specific viewpoint: a couple’s arguments.

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Simona falls in love with America very quickly, picturing it as the world of Woody Allen’s films, Friends and Sex And The City and, later on, that of Michelle and Barack Obama. In New York, where she is a correspondent for an Italian magazine, she meets Dan, falls in love and her American life begins in earnest. Exactly one month after their wedding, Donald Trump wins the elections, to the world’s surprise. Simona’s American dream is shattered, she feels well and truly conned. She is forced to open her eyes to a reality that is far from perfect. Her survival technique: blaming her husband for all that’s wrong in the United States. And so their arguments, from what you’re supposed to eat for breakfast, to which jacket to buy, to what to write on a card become an excuse for discussing more important topics, such as health, money management and the social injustice that permeates the country where pragmatism reigns supreme and where everyone is his and her own entrepreneur.

Written with: Dan Gerstein is the founder and CEO of Gotham Ghostwriters, America’s premier ghostwriting agency, and a nationally recognized political analyst. A native of Connecticut, Gerstein spent more than a decade as a speechwriter and communications strategist for Senator Joe Lieberman. He went on to become a political consultant and commentator in New York, writing frequently for the Wall Street Journal, Politico, and the New York Post and appearing on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. Today Gerstein, 53, spends of his time helping CEOs and tech geniuses birth their books, rooting for his beloved Boston Red Sox and Celtics, and playing with his babies Ella and Ugo.