“If you are an artist, you have no choice: you must place your ghosts into the pit of memory where they can confront the darkness from which all of life came.”
--Jack Gurian, notes for his American Literature class in India, 1963
Chapter 6
My legs against her bed, I stand next to my mother in her hospital …
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