{"product_id":"strangers-i-know","title":"Strangers I Know","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStrangers I Know\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eClaudia Durastanti\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593087947\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRiverhead Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Durastanti 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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Strangers I Know | Claudia Durastanti | Hardcover | 9780593087947 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743696","offer_id":48199249854616,"sku":"1743696","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81EbYWRjRjL.jpg?v=1772550461","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/strangers-i-know","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}