When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
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When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
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It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
The author of River Mumma on the demonization of traditional medicines, cities as characters, and quarter-life crises.
The author of People Collide on body swaps, Gender Vertigo, and cruelty as a path to honesty.
The author of Daughter on writing as channeling, emails as gunfire, and emotional math.
The bush pricked everyone’s fingers and provided handfuls of blush-red fruit for the price, if you were willing to pay it. Every summer I lived in that house I was glad to.