The title suggests Basilicata was beyond the hand of God, a place where pagan magic still existed and thrived.

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He prayed for good to come, for his mom and for him, since God was like magic, and happiness might come the way of early morning, in the trees and bushes full of sparrows next to his open window, louder and louder when he listened hard, eyes closed.

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