Playing House: A Conversation with Megan Culhane Galbraith
Megan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
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Join NOW!Megan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
...moreI’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
...more“Healing is a process you must actively engage in.”
...moreI imagine Lady Justice’s fingers tipping the scales: Rose to leave, and me to sleep.
...moreWhen she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.
...more“In a nutshell,” he said, “they’re going to excise a dime-sized piece of your tongue and replace it with muscle and tendons from your left wrist.”
...moreWhat would it be like to not be us? We were trying to figure out so much about the world then, and this is something we could never get to the bottom of.
...moreRene Denfeld discusses her latest book, The Child Finder, the ways in which trauma traps us, and the important role of imagination in finding resilience and escape.
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreI’ve spent twenty years searching for the girl in the black shorts with a cold can of soda pop in her hand as though going through the steps of locating a lost wallet.
...moreThe singular, unavoidable truth about adoption is that it requires the undoing of one family so that another one can come into being.
...moreHere is something I’ve always believed: Just knowing I am an artist, asserting that identity, is more important than what I produce. It is a victory in itself.
...moreOther kids were just the grab-bag prize their parents were stuck with when they unwrapped it, whereas mine had gone shopping and picked me.
...moreHer parents, in the past, tried to surrender her to the state, asking the state to force her to go to school. They didn’t want to be held responsible for her any more. Now, it’s Maya who wants to live somewhere else.
...moreA memoir by a critic for The Onion views a troubled youth through the lens of popular culture
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