The Tiger Man's Daughter: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging

In search of a lost father and of a path of light connecting us to faraway worlds. Like so many dreamers of her generation, Laura, a young woman from Florence, travels to the heart of Africa in search of an authentic life, far from the hypocrisies of the modern world.There she meets Laconi, a young Indonesian dressed like a prince, with piercing eyes that belong to the wild.Together they begin a journey that will change everything. Their daughter Geia is born in the lush heart of Indonesia, where her parents try to build a life together.But economic hardships bring them back to Italy's industrial, middle-class world.Geia grows up far from her father's homeland, always feeling the pull of something lost. Years later, Geia's search to understand her origins becomes a journey of courage, memory, and reconciliation.It leads her back to her roots and to a mystical lineage in which her father's family is said to descend from tigers-creatures who, in an ancient time when humans and wild beast