{"product_id":"strangers-i-know-9780593087954","title":"Strangers I Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eDurastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self--woman, artist, daughter--is filtered and known. --Ocean Vuong \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInto 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKinetic, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593087954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Claudia Durastanti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561875116213,"sku":"9780593087954","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1800ad45-c899-4c60-8dd8-4bfc80afc6ce.jpg?v=1670942240","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strangers-i-know-9780593087954","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}