Reckoning Flashcards
1
Q
Migrants and their children
A
“Repetition created a comforting palimpsest of familiarity and a harsh beauty revealed itself. A new life began to emerge”
2
Q
War and its effect
A
“But heads without hearts are cruel things. Especially young heads.”
3
Q
Writing and storytelling
A
“the way of the sick soul seems unmanly and diseased.”
4
Q
Ancestry and ethnicity
A
“if you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.”
5
Q
An outsider, ‘the other’
A
“…just a simple indication that you were listening during a long-winded story.”
