Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti alienation and frustration before they

alienation and frustration before they experience brief

rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class

an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board

a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before

Strangers I Know - Claudia Durastanti alienation and frustration before theyEvery 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