I’d turned into a strange being / Barbara Kingsolver
Some cousins came in from Norton for the funeral, and normally with a full house there would be yelling over TV channels and the last chicken wing, a certain amount of soft objects thrown around. But they were weirdly quiet. Eyeing me like I’d turned into a strange being that might break if you made […]
Hurry up! / Leila Slimani
Her colleagues never ask Myriam to accompany them for a drink after work and are surprised at the nights she spends at the office. “But you do have children, don’t you?” One morning, when a teacher called her to tell her about a silly incident between Mila and a classmate, Myriam apologized for missing recent […]
