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The Mission of the Family

…by sharing Domenica’s untold history with her own 20-something granddaughter, Anina. “When a housewife grows old, her final task is to imagine what will endure of her life’s work after…

Father Knows Best

…it until he mentioned it, but I could see it in pictures. The lack of communication in the band seems almost comical, from a reader’s remove — Hembree often didn’t…

Becoming the Characters

…and various archival sources in the London area, which was Sarah’s home city. It’s always exciting to discover documents like Amelia’s passport to come to America or a poem written

“Penelope Looks Back”

…grand and inconceivable somewhere, anywhere at all. And then, I’ll feel the wrench of babbling child, aging father binding me to shore. [Read Chapter 16’s interview with Jenny Qi here.]…

Six Haiku

merging into a single blue lake and sky the crickets sometimes they change tune horses snort breath from their nostrils fills the air amid cracked stones of the cemetery —…

Storytellers with Loud Guitars

called Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance? But it’s not enough to say the album made the band. It was essential to their survival and to everything that followed. And back in…

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