Status Updates From Augustown

“Love requires context, and they had none.”

“She disliked that so many of her people walked around with names like Lisa or Robert or George- names that tried to diminish the greatest part of who they were, of their history; names that weren't even names, but erasures. And maybe this was her hesitation with this name, Kaia— that it, too, seemed to be an erasure. It was trying to rub out part of the child.”

“Yet, they continue with an almost Sisphyean resolve.”

def. things that require a lot of hard work and yet will never be truly finished

🪄⚡️”Look, this isn't magic realism. This is not another story about superstitious island people and their primitive beliets. No. You don't get off that easy. This is a story about people as real as you…”

I’m really lost on what I’m reading… but more than halfway through in a matter of a day, so I’m determined to see how the full story unfolds…