Giovanni was born in the late 1950s, in an apartment used as a grocery store, over a butcher’s shop, selling tobacco; just where he would later go to buy “Simple National” cigarettes for his father...view moreGiovanni was born in the late 1950s, in an apartment used as a grocery store, over a butcher’s shop, selling tobacco; just where he would later go to buy “Simple National” cigarettes for his father. His father left, before he was even sixteen and his brother, before he was twenty-nine. If he had to see them again, he would say to them: “Where the fuck have you been all these years? Didn’t you know that there were a lot of things to do here!?”...view less