Tears of Salt by Pietro Bartolo

Author:Pietro Bartolo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Giacomo is not a lover of fishing. During the summers when he comes home, I always have trouble convincing him to go out on the boat with me. It makes me smile to think of how I had to fish with my father out of necessity, every single time I returned to Lampedusa.

Sometimes Giacomo decides to indulge me, and those are some of the best times we have together. He and I alone. I could listen to his voice for ever. He has the gift of being able to turn even the most banal of happenings into an interesting anecdote.

My son and I have entirely different personalities. He often reproves me for being too impulsive, lacking in rationality, not thinking hard enough about the consequences of my actions. Sometimes when we argue it is as if we have swapped roles, that he is the father and I the son. Giacomo knows all too well that I cannot change, that I cannot do what I do any other way, that I shall never be good at handling weighty questions diplomatically, especially when they have to do with people’s lives and destinies. Slowly, and with difficulty, he is coming to accept this, and I too am coming to accept how he takes me to task. His criticisms make me stop and think, in spite of my increasingly frenetic life.

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