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Based on a true story, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. 'We're waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha's neck where I'm holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can't see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright as anything and blinding me, but I can hear the gasp go up. They always gasp.'

Questo volume contiene lo scritto di mio pugno buttato giu durante gli ultimi giorni di vita di mia madre e quelli immediatamente successivi. Le motivazioni di questa scelta sono di natura catartica, di elaborazione ma anche di documentazione e condivisione. Possedendo uno spirito fondamentalmente umanista, questo e per me il modo migliore per ricordare, celebrare e condannare.

Her story sheds light on a little-known segment of a 20th-century diaspora, a mass-exodus from Europe by some "huddled masses yearning to be free". This oppressed group fled the dire poverty of Sicily and southern Italy to endure a subsistence lifestyle bestowed by the owners of the coal mining industry and early American factories. She was surrounded by a clan of families.