AXIOMATIC

How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past - ours, our family's, our culture's - wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin's AXIOMATIC tells true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a su icide, a grandmother's quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer's battle inside and against the justice s ystem, the effects of multi-generational trauma, and the history of the author's longest friendship. In writing that is inventive, b old, and ...[Read more]