Zadie Smith on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Instead, it’s just been one thing after another, and there are no neat conclusions except the certainty of death.
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Well, helpfully, my mother has written a novel, a quite autobiographical novel called “The Day I Fell Off My Island.” She was born in very tough circumstances. She grew up extremely poor. Her mother left to work with the Windrush generation as an orderly in a hospital. And she left my mother in Jamaica. So she was alone for a long time.”
Anahid Nersessian’s When does a divorce begins? (The Yale Review)
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Divorce is a writer’s business. You can paint a wedding but not a divorce.
