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"Perfectly done, with so much humor and outrage both!"Lauren Collins, The New Yorker staff writer and author of 'When in French'Thousands of people risk crossing the Mediterranean Sea each year. But what happens if they make it to the other side?In this searingly honest and thought-provoking memoir, leavened with just enough wry humor, Katja Meier shares the hard lessons she discovered while running a refugee home among Tuscany's seemingly idyllic golden hills.



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Katja Meier

Born in Switzerland, Katja Meier earned a degree in performing arts in Zurich before moving to Tuscany in 1999. She has worked as an olive picker, wine tour guide, wedding planner and life coach before taking on a small refugee home in a Tuscan hilltop town.

Katja writes for travel publications and lives with her Italian partner and two children next to an olive grove with a view over a little-known valley in southern Tuscany. Across the Big Blue Sea is her first book.



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