Working in the studio of Eddi Fleming, we listened to several chapters of a remarkable first novel by a Zimbabwean author, NoViolet Bulawayo, “We Need New Names.” As the story tells how children in a shanty town play games such as “finding bin Laden” and cope with terrible privation, disease, and death, it made a striking contrast to my small struggles with color, value, proportion.
Making the most of a day
14 Wednesday Jan 2015
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