{"id":1565,"date":"2026-06-29T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:22:00","slug":"andrea-bajanis-novel-addresses-the-tyranny-of-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Bajani\u2019s Novel Addresses the Tyranny of Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17284\/andrea-bajani-interview-the-anniversary-penguin?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=andrea-bajani-s-novel-addresses-the-tyranny-of-family\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/4\/474914.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Bajani credit Adolfo Frediani\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>There is a horribly telling description about halfway through <\/span><strong>Andrea Bajani<\/strong><span>\u2019<\/span><span>s novel <\/span><strong>The Anniversary<\/strong><span>, which quietly demonstrates the devastation wrought by relentless, all-consuming abuse. The book<\/span><span>\u2019<\/span><span>s unnamed narrator explains how his father \u2013 a deeply violent bully \u2013 wordlessly reenters the family home he<\/span><span>\u2019<\/span><span>d earlier left after having physically attacked his wife.hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17284\/andrea-bajani-interview-the-anniversary-penguin?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=andrea-bajani-s-novel-addresses-the-tyranny-of-family\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a horribly telling description about halfway through Andrea Bajani\u2019s novel The Anniversary, which quietly demonstrates the devastation wrought by relentless, all-consuming abuse. The book\u2019s unnamed narrator explains how his father \u2013 a deeply violent bully \u2013 wordlessly reenters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}