One Month Turned Into a Year

By Fransesco Malila

Sita O'Sullivan flew to Zanzibar to escape her failing career and broken heart-a four-week reset before returning to Dublin and real life. Then COVID-19 closed the world's borders, and one month became a year became forever.

Stranded in Stone Town during the pandemic, Sita transforms from tourist to immigrant, photographer to teacher, outsider to family. She learns to cook pilau from her landlady, teaches photography to local youth, and builds community with people who should have remained strangers. When borders finally reopen and Dublin calls her home, Sita faces an impossible choice: return to the life she planned, or stay in the life she's accidentally built.

ONE MONTH TURNED INTO A YEAR is an intimate portrait of belonging and resilience-a story about what it means to find home when you're most yourself in a place you never meant to stay.

Perfect for readers who loved Eat Pray Love, The Year of Living Danishly, and anyone who's ever wondered if the place they ended up by accident might be more home than the place they came from by design.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6MG26C8
• ISBN13: 9798232042530
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Fransesco Malila
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"