This book is about the fallout of violence and how it has affected a family for generations. I'm not surprised this book won a prize for Immigrant Writing. So timely and gorgeous and you can buy it direct from the publisher here: restlessbooks.org/bookstore/un...

Congrats, Catharina!

Until I read Catharina's writing, I didn't know that an unexploded ordnance was an undetonated bomb, and in the case of this writing, the leftovers bombs from WWII that are still being unearthed in Germany.

"Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."

Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"

Thank you for publishing Elisabeth's brilliant article. I'm a former contractor myself who has been assaulted and knows too many other women who have been, too. This kind of reporting is important for people's safety.

Two of my women friends have the exact same thing post-covid and it's awful.

As a long hauler and as a writer, thank you for writing this.

That sucks! I'm sorry. I tested positive for fourteen days...

Thanks, Mike!!