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What we owe

Posted on 24 April 2019 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

As an immigrant to a Nordic country under very different circumstances, I devoured this. I’m vastly more privileged – I am not a political refugee, although my grandparents and great uncle were, in their day. But the otherness and sameness…

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Love

Posted on 10 April 2019 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

This PEN award winner is indeed about love, and distance. I haven’t read such a desperately sad story for a long, long time. Like Romeo and Juliet, it’s the just-too-lateness of it all that is the most tragic. But this…

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