The inscription—the handwriting of a person to whom I’m related, but who has always been, for me, unreachable, unknowable—wrapped an additional layer of mystery around this book about mystery. I wonder if that’s part of why I loved the story so much.
At the Ploughshares blog, Clare Beamsin talks about exploring the secret spaces in fiction as well as the secret spaces of her own life.
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