Galleys
During the many years I supported myself as a legal proofreader on the night shift at the NYC law firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, I never dreamed that one day the pages I’d be proofreading would be my own—galleys for my second book, first novel, Mother Mother, to be published in November by […]
Vitalina Williams
On Easter Sunday, Vitalina Williams, a Guatemalan woman from Tecpan, one of 10 children, in the US for more than 20 years and a legal US citizen, became a victim of Covid-19. She lived in Massachusetts, worked at the Market Basket and Walmart, in Salem and Danvers, towns close to where my sister lives, but […]
Week Four
Mateo is studying the universe in his high school science class, and I realize our confinement is like a neutron star: everything in our lives has collapsed down to a tiny core, compressed and dense. Tim is our designated public person. Masked and gloved, he leaves the house once a week to dash to the […]