Emanuela Monda presenta L’anno che non venne l’estate

Taranto – **Tuesday, February 3, 2026**, at 8:15 PM, at **Sonora** (via Principe Amedeo 1/3), the cultural series **“MEET autumn 2026”** continues, dedicated to dialogue as a practice of social transformation.

The main guest of the meeting will be **Emanuela Monda**, who will present her book **The Year Summer Did Not Come** (Bertoni series). Joining the author in conversation will be **Giovanna Cinieri**. Admission is free.

Born in Fragagnano (Taranto), Emanuela Monda is a teacher, with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and a PhD in philosophy. She has worked on school projects dedicated to Equal Opportunities and gender differences, collaborating with journals and research projects on women's writing. After her debut novel **The Smell of Things I Lost** (Bertoni Editore, 2022), she returns to bookstores with a new narrative work.

**The Year Summer Did Not Come** is set in July 2019 and tells the story of the encounter between Alice, a sixteen-year-old from Taranto, and Blanca, a little younger, on vacation in Torre Mezza. An unexpected friendship that becomes the key to uncovering a shared past involving their mothers, Carmen and Caterina, who were linked by an intense relationship in the 1990s that ended abruptly.
The novel traverses generations, memory, and female identity, questioning women's bodies, motherhood, and the difficult transition to adulthood, amid pain, loss, and the possibility of rebirth.

The “MEET autumn 2026” series is part of the **Wellness 2026** project, a cycle of events dedicated to mental health, identity, inclusive language, and cultural participation. All meetings take place at Sonora and are open to the public.
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