In the StoryThe Child of Turin
Pietro is four. Another family claims to recognize a dead woman in him. In Turin, a child remembers a seamstress’s life, gestures and details he should not know. For his mother, Rosa, the strangeness is difficult enough to take in. It becomes a threat when the dead woman’s loved ones seek to reclaim her through Pietro.
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She had pushed the two breakfast plates to the edge of the sink and pulled the table beneath the window. The light fell better there, she said. Pietro knew only that when she brought out the flat box where the pins slept, he could no longer climb onto his favorite chair. The midnight-blue dress occupied his place. It spilled from the table like thick water, and his mother held it with an elbow while looking for thread.Read the excerpt ↗