It was interesting for me to read that honor killing is not an Asian or Muslim thing like it is potraid in the west. What the mafia was doing were honor killings just not being called that.
<i>A year earlier, Pesce had been defined by the men in her life...</i><p>The author writes this, in between a passage describing a grandmother who mimed strangling Pesce and another that describes a mother who no longer referred to her by name.<p>There is an attempt to give a women’s liberation angle to this story; that independence from men is somehow the cure; but being part of a criminal family is something very specific relative to the general question of women’s place in society, or in Italian society, or even in Calabria.