A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family sizable with its routines and rituals crazes pet phrases and stories doubtful comical indispensable comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburgs Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi the father is a scientist consumed by his work and a mania for hikingwhen he isnt provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish married to Lidia a Catholi