A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime
to drawings and sketches of Moria Gate and Minas Tirith
as she begins to understand that Orlanda was born from her own psyche
loss and legacy [into] a thoroughly researched and beautifully imagined family saga
straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees Digital Currencies A woman recollecting an afternoon’sFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrancesa subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukumatathil