Title: A TERRIBLE BOOK
Product review: Storace's book is a vivid illustration of how even a richly educated individual can be vastly ignorant. She completely misses the mark on the true benevolence behind much of Greek hospitality, and her pitiable retellings of the overtures of Greek men reveal nothing but her own egotism. Despite a solid understanding of Greek language and history, Storace has extremely limited understanding of Greeks themselves, in large part because her own ethnocentrism -- which reveals itself repeatedly in the book -- prevents her from regarding Greeks as equal to Americans. To read her ridiculous "observations" regarding Greeks (All Greeks look alike, Greeks don't smile) is to know the real meaning of The Ugly American.Her year in Athens was clearly too brief a period for her to understand Greeks.If you want to know Greeks, spend time with Greeks. Or visit Greece. Do not read this book.
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