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STRANGERS I KNOW - CLAUDIA DURASTANTI KARTONIER...

"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self—woman 
artist  daughter—is filtered and known." —Ocean Vuong   A work of fiction about being a
stranger in your own family and life.   Every family has its own mythology  but in this family
none of the myths match up. Claudia’s mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from
jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery.
Both parents are deaf but couldn’t be more different  they can’t even agree on how they met 
much less who needed saving.   Into this unlikely yet somehow inevitable union  our narrator is
born. She comes of age with her brother in this strange  and increasingly estranged  household
split between a small village in southern Italy and New York City. Without even sign language
in common – their parents have not bothered to teach them – family communications are chaotic
and rife with misinterpretations  by turns hilarious and devastating. An outsider in every way
she longs for a freedom she’s not even sure exists. Only books and punk rock—and a tumultuous
relationship—begin to show her the way to create her own mythology  to construct her own
version of the story of her life.   Kinetic  formally dazzling  and spectacularly original 
this book is a funny and profound portrait of an unconventional family that makes us look anew
at how language shapes our understanding of ourselves.  

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