Makenna Goodman
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The Shame
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published
2020
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7 editions
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Helen of Nowhere
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“I worked hard to love you, to make you feel loved, to have the world love you. I became old instantly. I became imprisoned by love, by impatience, by impetuousness. It wasn’t easy; I hope you will find the shadows comforting, in the end. I wish I could be there to defend myself.”
― The Shame
― The Shame
“My beautiful student was last to present her work.
She said to think of a truth in nature is absurd. The birds, the flowers, the trees, the soil - each of these entities had a history that preceded its current state, and each stage of that history was informed by both regeneration and violence, and political and environmental factors that impacted it directly and indirectly. If there was any truth to be discovered, it was that nature itself was not neutral, and any so-called purity was imposed upon it by those of us with the need to use nature as a shield from our own complicity with systems of destruction.”
― Helen of Nowhere
She said to think of a truth in nature is absurd. The birds, the flowers, the trees, the soil - each of these entities had a history that preceded its current state, and each stage of that history was informed by both regeneration and violence, and political and environmental factors that impacted it directly and indirectly. If there was any truth to be discovered, it was that nature itself was not neutral, and any so-called purity was imposed upon it by those of us with the need to use nature as a shield from our own complicity with systems of destruction.”
― Helen of Nowhere
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Which book will be our April 2026 group read?
Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo - 144 pages
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman - 160 pages
The Brittle Age by Donatella Di Pietrantonio - 177 pages
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan - 256 pages
An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky - 249 pages
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