A Year in Reading: Kate Petersen
On a stolen afternoon in fall, we packed sandwiches and library books and headed up Bear Jaw trail. Stolen from emails, I mean.
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Lives in Letters
While my father is a young 81—another man’s 61, according to everyone who meets him—the fact that there’s an “8” in the age recorded in so many of the obituaries he sends is still a fact. When did this happen? I think. I think: So he’s preparing me.
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Mothers and Daughters: On Natalie Serber’s Shout Her Lovely Name
The mothers and daughters in these stories are working out how to hold on to one another even as they scramble to get out of each other’s way.
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