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02991aam a22004818i 4500 001 D83AB2BA832C11EC91F9F9F449ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220201010123 008 210503s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021020452 020 $a 0593087941 020 $a 9780593087947 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1249707906 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d TP7 $d JSE $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4904.U83 $b S7713 2021 082 00 $a 853/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Durastanti, Claudia, $d 1984- $e author. 240 10 $a Straniera. $l English 245 10 $a Strangers I know / $c Claudia Durastanti ; translated by Elizabeth Harris. 250 $a First American edition. 260 $a New York : $b Riverhead Books, $c 2022. 263 $a 2201 300 $a 294 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a First published in Italy by La nave di Teseo as La Straniera, Milan, 2019. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children of deaf parents $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Harris, Elizabeth, $d 1963- $e translator. 941 $a 10 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015258.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010025631.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100322.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230131010333.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221103011957.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220414010248.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220302013038.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220302010406.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220224010020.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220201011851.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D83AB2BA832C11EC91F9F9F449ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search