0812998162 (N) by Katherine Wilson

0812998162 (N) by Katherine Wilson

Author:Katherine Wilson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-04-18T21:00:00+00:00


“This will go great with my Bali pants, grazie mille,” my father said.

My mother spun around the Formica island trying on her scarf in different ways, and cooed, “Gentilissimo grazie grazie Salvatore!” She’d gotten a Parlo Italiano audiotape and was listening to it every day in her car so that she could outdo my father linguistically when Salva arrived.

He blushed and laughed. I’d never seen him blush. I’d never seen him at a loss for words.

“I didn’t know what form of you to use with your parents,” he told me later, “I wanted to show them respect!”

I reassured him that there was only one form of you in English, and that they would happily answer to Bonnie and Ed (or Bony and Head). He relaxed and started to enjoy the antics of what he considered a “typical American family.” (Typical American fathers do not swim nude, I had to remind Salva when we got back to Italy. They do not make loud animal noises in elegant French restaurants; they also do not buy live lobsters at Whole Foods so they can swim with them and then boil them for dinner.)

My mother planned three weeks of travel for the four of us. While a Neapolitan mammà would have spent time organizing and preparing typical dishes for my boyfriend to taste, Bonnie Wilson was compiling a folder with maps, brochures, and tickets for the Show Salva the U.S.A. tour. We hit New York and Los Angeles, Boston and San Diego. My mother organized the strategic strikes with great efficiency: Who knew if Salva was ever going to come back to America? We had to get as much in as possible.



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