Brunello for Breakfast

In his previous memoir, The Bromide In the Soup, Dario Castagno related his adventures as a teenager beginning his obligatory military service--naja--at the firefighting training academy in Rome. In this sequel, the newly graduated Dario fulfills the remainder of his duty as an actual firefighter in his home city of Siena, where his colleagues include not only other youths fulfilling their naja, but career firefighters well into middle age, not all of whom get along famously with the rebell...