BOOK CLUB
Book of the month:
Domenico Starnone
Ties
(translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri)
What do we leave behind when we leave someone? A home, a family, the past, an idea of the future, our worst photograph burned into the eyes of the person we loved. We spend our lives smashing vases and gluing the shards back together, deluding ourselves that we are brand new. And then we try not to look back, because the time for taking stock is a futile, ridiculous, and heartbreaking. Domenico Starnone has written an intensely powerful and truthful book: a three-voiced account of the hidden to the eyes forces that keep marriages alive even after love has faded.
“If you’ve forgotten, sir, let me remind you: I am your wife.” Thus begins the letter Vanda writes to her husband who has left home, abandoning her to a storm of helpless rage and questions that find no answers.
Domenico Starnone gives us a moving and deeply powerful story—the masterful tale of a departure, a return, and of all the failures: those that seem impossible to overcome, and those that accompany us for a lifetime.
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