The Italian I Was Never Supposed to Understand novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Summer
I shook his shoulder.
"Tommaso. Wake up. You're being sued."
He opened one eye.
"By whom?"
"Raffaele. In Alba. For defamation."
He took the phone, read it, and put it face down on my pillow.
"He's suing us for repeating what he said into your phone."
"Apparently."
"He wants a million euros?"
"For damage to his reputation."
Tommaso closed the eye again.
"He'll have to find it first," he said, and pulled me back down.
Nonna's lawyers in Milan said the same thing, with more words and a bigger invoice.
The first hearing in Alba wouldn't be until November.
Italian courts moved like Italian lunches.
Raffaele could say anything he wanted to a judge in Piedmont.
What he couldn't do was set foot in New York.
Nonna came home on the first of July.
By the fourth, she was walking the length of her garden with her cane and a nurse she called "the prison guard."
By the tenth, she'd fired the prison guard and hired Pina's cousin from 86th Street to do her hair twice a week instead.
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