Blogs in May 2020

The Marsh King’s Daughter 1st May 2020

You’d recognise my mother’s name if I told it to you. You’d wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn’t she have a daughter while she was missing? And whatever happened to the little girl? Helena’s home is like...

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Laurentian Divide 1st May 2020

Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different...

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Vacationland 1st May 2020

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge – only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing...

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House of Glass 1st May 2020

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved,...

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Beyond the Narrow Gate 28th April 2020

In 1937, the year Leslie Chang’s mother was born, the city of Nanking was destroyed by Japanese invaders with instructions from the Emperor to “kill all: destroy all; burn all.” Eleven years later, when the Red Army marched into...

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