Climbing St. Friday is a poignant, nostalgic look at the 1970s adventures of a young Greek-American girl who is sent by her parents from a small town in the Midwest to Athens, Greece, for a year of college. As she spreads her wings in the land that introduced democratic ideals to the world, she does so against the backdrop of a country recently taken over by an oppressive military regime.
Climbing St. Friday is a poignant, nostalgic look at the 1970s adventures of a young Greek-American girl who is sent by her parents from a small town in the Midwest to Athens, Greece, for a year of college. As she spreads her wings in the land that introduced democratic ideals to the world, she does so against the backdrop of a country recently taken over by an oppressive military regime.
The eighteen year old girl that arrives on a huge ship in the Greek port of Piraeus the summer of 1970 does so with an excitement equalled only by her wander-lusting father, who completed his own odyssey to the ‘old country’ at precisely the same age in 1938. It is a story that most of us who have grown up abroad can identify with readily, its many references to situations and experiences which we have 'lived' shall we say, will make you smile, if not laugh outright!
Product Details
BN ID: 2940011102844
Publisher: Dena Kouremetis, via Smashwords
Publication date: 9/13/2010
Sold by: SMASHWORDS - EBKS
Format: eBook
File size: 279 KB
Meet the Author
Having written about a variety of topics from America’s housing, to midlife romance, to celebrity profiles, Dena Kouremetis currently writes three columns for Examiner.com.
Author, co-author and professional consultant for four books, Kouremetis is a past columnist for the Sacramento Bee and has written articles and feature stories for newspapers across the country. Several of her personal stories have appeared in books, including Heavenly Miracles (Morrow Press) and Raging Gracefully:Smart Women on Life Love, and Coming into Your Own (Adams Media). Profiled in Professional Women magazine in 2004.
Kouremetis is also a public speaker and professional trainer.
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Climbing St. Friday is a poignant, nostalgic look at the 1970s adventures of a young Greek-American girl who is sent by her parents from a small town in the Midwest to Athens, Greece, for a year of college. As she spreads her wings in the land that introduced democratic ideals to the world, she does so against the backdrop of a country recently taken over by an oppressive military regime.