A Despicable Article by Lourdes Mackey Kate Kelly to her youngest sister Alice, October 4th, 1898 You asked how it began Alice. Well God and His Mother knows that from the very minute Ned Kelly opened his eyes as a…
BackStory: Five Questions with P Akasaka
BackStory: Five Questions with P Akasaka Author of Haori What inspired you to write ‘Haori’? My grandmother was a seamstress and I always wanted to write something about that life. Wearing a haori was a great status symbol among young…
Haori
Read and listen in English Read and listen in Japanese / 日本語 Haori by P Akasaka 31 August 1923. What the fuck! said Koume. Her name meant “little plum,” but sweet she was not. If an apprentice could wear a…
BackStory: Five Questions with Salena Casha
BackStory: Five Questions with Salena Casha Author of This is not a story about my grandfather What inspired you to write ‘This is not a story about my grandfather’? I grew up hearing a piece of family lore related to…
This is not a story about my grandfather
This is not a story about my grandfather by Salena Casha On July 26, 1956, my grandfather’s suitcase hit a seabed at the bottom of the Atlantic just off the coast of Nantucket. While made of newly flogged leather cinched…