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Music Learn more at PMI.com slash progress. Hello and welcome to the Spectator's Book Club podcast.

I'm Sam Leith, the literary edge of The Spectator,

and I'm very pleased to be joined this week by the academic Leia Upi, whose new book

is Indignity A Life Reimagined, which follows up from her prize-winning first book,

Free Coming of Age at the End of History. In that book, she talked about her own childhood in

Albania as communism collapsed, and in this book, she rediscoveres her grandmother's life, or goes on a search to do so anyway.

This book starts, doesn't it, with a photograph.

Tell me how that kicked it off.

Yeah, it starts with a text message from a friend of mine who says, have you seen that

your grandmother has become viral on Facebook? And my grandmother had passed away at that point.

And I went on social media and discovered this photo of her that I had never seen before,

posted by a person I had never met before, which was very quickly getting likes and shares

and comments. And some of the comments were very derogatory. There were two things about

the photograph that were very unusual and very strange. The first one was a photograph that was

of my grandmother, clearly taken during her honeymoon in the Italian Dolomites.

And I only knew about this because I recognized the name of the hotel in the background.

She was in a ski resort next to her.

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