A little girl tries to lead a normal life – dance revues, school – while the shadow of her mother’s illness seems everywhere. If she focuses on dancing “The Blackbird,” she’ll be fine.
A couple try to make sense of their grown son’s suicide, even if you can never really make sense of that kind of tragedy. Or you’re traveling with your grandparents, trying to escape, or deal with, a family breakup. Or a spouse dies, that “little cough” having turned into something fatal. Or your youngest child is born with a skin condition that essentially makes him allergic to sunlight, and you have to re-orient everything you know and do. Or you take refuge from your spouse’s beach house, the one in your family for three generations, the one containing memories of every childhood vacation.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Go On, Try It; The Semicolon Isn’t as Scary as You Think – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
Writing without a platform – Brad East.
The kindest of ghosts: A new history of childhood reading is a treasure – Simon Evans at The Critic Magazine.
Things Worth Remembering: Nothing is Lost Forever – Douglas Murray at The Free Press on playwright Tom Stoppard.
A preview of the New World War I Memorial in DC – and why it will hit you hard – John Domen at WTOP.
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