Following her successful, sold-out debut show in 2022, Adelaide’s cultural storyteller, performer and Amazon bestselling author, Claudia Callisto, is returning to the Adelaide Fringe in 2023 with, The Good Italian Girl Presents - Italian Love is a Battlefield, a brand-new show that takes a comedic spin on the experiences of growing up in a traditional Italian immigrant family. Based on her bestselling book, The Good Italian Girl, Claudia’s new Adelaide Fringe show is a heartwarming and entertaining stand-up comedy special that follows her journey of being a first-generation daughter of an Italian migrant family, the battles she faced with her parents, husband and the challenges she now faces on how to navigate raising her only child. Supported with music by...
I’m just so grateful for my recent article in the national Italian paper Il Globo Monday 11 october 2021 written by the Adelaide journalist Emma Luxardo who I was fortunate to meet on the day I was being interviewed on Radio Italiana 531 about my solo book “The Good Italian Girl “ The media exposure of my solo book to the wide Italian community via this article is one amazing aspect of this article. 💛 🙏 However on a personal level my Dad who has now passed. An event that was very much a trigger for writing this book would be literally jumping up and down that his subborn and firey Good Italian daughter was infact featured in his beloved...
Book Signing of "The Good Italian Girl" by Claudia Callisto
A meet the author and book signing of this South Australian migrant story
Sunday 14th November 2021Signing from 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Mercato, Campbelltown
View the program here: View Progam
The Good Italian Girl tops the Amazon charts after release. Callisto encourages embracing traditions while releasing the guilt, to give new generations a sense of belonging.
Celebrate where you come from AND where you are now.
As early as age 17, Callisto felt the pressure from the unwritten cultural expectations of what it meant to be a 'good Italian girl;' Stay close to home, get married, have a big family, and be the glue that holds everything together.
Read more on the NY Headline: https://nyheadline.com/press/international-bestselling-author-claudia-callisto-inspires-readers-to-embrace-multiculturalism-in-new-book-the-good-italian-girl/57431
