Reckoning

Question 1

Migrants and their children

Answer 1

“Repetition created a comforting palimpsest of familiarity and a harsh beauty revealed itself. A new life began to emerge”

Question 2

War and its effect

Answer 2

“But heads without hearts are cruel things. Especially young heads.”

Question 3

Writing and storytelling

Answer 3

“the way of the sick soul seems unmanly and diseased.”

Question 4

Ancestry and ethnicity

Answer 4

“if you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.”

Question 5

An outsider, ‘the other’

Answer 5

“…just a simple indication that you were listening during a long-winded story.”