Dad had run off with another woman and he and our mother had weaved their own custody arrangement, long before Italy passed a divorce law in 1974. Our parents were no longer together since before I was born. Sundays were always Father’s day in our broken family. I distracted myself drawing on the fogged car window with my finger, watching the still damp trees lining the road, their tops hovering in the absence of any wind. And that would really put me in my father’s sights. The blaring noise of cars pushed to their whining limit swirled in my head like the buzzing of a monstrous beehive while the curves of the winding road made me want to hurl my lunch on the car’s upholstery. Any noise, and I’d be the target of his anger. The Italian Grand Prix blasted from the radio, and Jacky Ickx, his favorite driver, was out of the race after his Ferrari died past the curva grande. The Alfa Romeo swerved and my heart skittered. “No way!” My father’s fists hit the steering wheel. (dredging up a time when she was still CHIARA)
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