Strangers I Know Durastanti Claudia
Strangers I Know Durastanti Claudia A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge.…
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Strangers I Know Durastanti Claudia
A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up.
Both parents are deaf but couldn't be more different; they can't even agree on how they met, much less who needed saving. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery. 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. An outsider in every way, she longs for a freedom she's not even sure