EAN: 9780593541470

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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