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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 commun

Strangers I Know

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    A Paperback / softback by Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/01/2023
      ISBN13: 9780593087954, 978-0593087954
      ISBN10: 059308795X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 commun

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