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Thirty children walk out of the woods on a cold night, line up at the edge of a mountain village, and start to sing. Word spreads and the village comes out with lamps. Twenty-three people are certain they recognise a child who died. The children will not answer, will not move, and will not stop; […]

A sharp, ornate sword—a fantastical world of war, strategy, and beating impossible odds As a child, all Marcus knew was abandonment: from his family, his dreams, his own identity. Sent to the Capital Orphanage for Boys by his uncle, Marcus is raised under former soldier Varus, effectively conditioning him from childhood to become cannon fodder […]

A powerful memoir about family, identity, and the lifelong search for belonging Crushed Azaleas is a deeply reflective memoir in which Amal Moulik revisits his childhood and adolescence as the son of an Indian diplomat. Growing up across Japan, India, the United Kingdom, and Italy, Moulik experienced a life of constant movement and cultural exposure. […]

A woman stands in the aisle of a hardware store outside Atlanta, five months pregnant, deciding between lengths of garden stake. She settles on five of them, two and a half feet long, and adds a rubber mallet, a tool belt, a camping lantern and an ultraviolet torch. Then she straps the belt on and […]

She is eleven. The house has run out of almost everything, so she goes down the garden to the neighbour’s coop and takes four eggs, leaving the rest. She cuts the mould off the bread instead of picking it out. She scrambles them in olive oil because there is no butter, puts half on the […]