SEI TU IL FIGLIO

It's not easy for a son to watch his father destroy himself. It's not easy to forgive, nor to hate. Emanuele Galesi tells us, without rhetoric, a true, dramatic, and sweet story. When he looks at the hospital room, above the bed he sees a man consumed by drugs. He feels anger. He feels tired, of an infinite tiredness. And he feels ashamed, because he knows that for others that emaciated figure is just a junkie, a useless poor man. But for him it's different, that man is his father. It's another hospital, another fall. In the past, the father has always found the strength to come out of it, even if each time it has been more difficult. He, who has never shied away from effort, neither at work, until he managed to keep one, nor in the mountains, where with a sure step he preceded his child as a boy and then as a teenager. A relationship, between the two, made of continuous subtractions, with drugs eroding the normality of their bond, until the inevitable role reversal. And it's again the son who has to take care of the father, but this time it's different. This time, after the fall, there won't be a rise. It could be just the end of everything, or it could become an opportunity to go beyond their respective wounds and find something authentic to save. A novel that, thanks to the protagonist's point of view, offers a new reading of the problem of drug addiction. Not the anguish of a parent who sees every possibility of a future for their child being nullified, but the disorientation of a son who must build on the rubble left by the father.