The Imperfectionists

This book takes place in Rome so I had to pick it up from the library although it turns out the city plays a very small part in the story. It is about a English-language newspaper in Rome over roughly a fifty-year period. The structure is a little unusual: each chapter focuses on a different individual with little connection between characters. This makes it sound like a collection of short stories, which I usually avoid like the plague, but it was written so well that the stories intertwined enough to make it engrossing. I found it easy to relate to many of the characters being an imperfect perfectionist myself.