Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of I Am Giorgia by Giorgia Meloni

There are books that whisper. Books that reason. And then there are books that roar. Giorgia Meloni’s I Am Giorgia: My Roots, My Principles belongs to the last kind — the kind that slaps you awake before you’ve finished your espresso. Reading it felt like sitting across a table from a woman who doesn’t just speak — she commands the air around her. Whether you agree with her politics or not, it’s impossible to look away.

Meloni, Italy’s first female Prime Minister, has been called many things — nationalist, populist, conservative, revolutionary — but few have seen her as a storyteller. In this memoir, she finally tells her story in her own voice, and it’s nothing short of combustible. She doesn’t tiptoe through her past; she storms through it. From a difficult Roman childhood in Garbatella to the pinnacle of Italian power, she recounts her journey with the intensity of a woman who has fought every inch of the way. “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian” — the viral speech that once became a nightclub remix now becomes the scaffolding of her identity.

The book begins with something unexpected — not politics, but pain. A struggling mother walking toward an abortion clinic. The twist? That woman is Meloni’s own mother, who ultimately turns back, giving the world a…