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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The day before, Pietro had explained to Sister Giuseppina that his father drove trams at night beneath the city, in a tunnel no one else was allowed to enter. In his eyes, it was not really false. Cesare sometimes worked nights, there were rails, and Pietro had seen a black opening behind the depot. The rest had assembled itself while he spoke. Sister Giuseppina had sent a note home. His father had read it twice before asking where, exactly, this tunnel was.Read the excerpt ↗