About the Book: In Roman Year, André Aciman recounts a poignant coming-of-age story set in 1960s Rome, where he and his deaf mother and younger brother relocate as refugees after being expelled from Egypt Initially homesick and alienated, Aciman escapes into literature—discovering solace in the works of Proust, Woolf, and Joyce—before gradually falling in love with the city through its textures, aromas, and quiet moments . The memoir unfolds in luminous, sensuous prose, richly capturing the shifts between loss and belonging during one transformative year