Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti a young maid he seduced

a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before

rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class

Translator: Asa Yoneda

They parse

frustrated artistic ambitions

Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti a young maid he seducedEvery 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