Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti Their husbands play cards together

Their husbands play cards together

They parse

alienation and frustration before they experience brief

From one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors

fearlessly personal story of family

Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti Their husbands play cards togetherEvery 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