A son reckons with the emotional damage his father wrought in Italian novelist Andrea Bajani's The Anniversary. Bajani tells the story about how the anniversary, the day his narrator cut his parents out of his life, came to be. In the novel, silencing and intimidation are distinct forms of abuse. With crystalline, precise prose, Bajani examines all the ways his mother—her story, her voice— was erased by his father. This slim, moving book resonates somewhere between emotional release and visceral panic, a frequency acutely tuned to the memory of abuse.
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