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In this particular travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Xmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a fresh mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of the time, moms and daughters experienced notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a mom who says she has a good or great marriage with her girl," Jane Xmas writes, "and I'll demonstrate a daughter who is in therapy seeking to comprehend how everything travelled so horribly wrong." To even over five generations of frequent clashing, Christmas can take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mom, Valeria - a mix between Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket of the English humor Keeping Up Performances - on a travel of Italy. Neither has been to Italy before, but both are admirers of ancient artwork, architecture, and record. Will gazing at the fruits of the Italian Renaissance be adequate to spark a renaissance in their marriage? As they wander along the winding Amalfi Seacoast, traverse St. Peter's Square in Rome, and sample the wines of Tuscany - walkers, biscuits, shawls, and medications in tow - they revisit the bickering and bitterness of years past and reassess who they are and how they could reconcile their distinctions. Unflinching and sometimes entertaining, Incontinent on the Continent will speak to all women who have tried to socialize with their moms.
