Status Updates From Straying: A Novel

“What I would like to explore in my report, and what it is certainly not my job to explore, is the question of which is mire shocking : barbarity or the capacity to survive it. When I started in this line of work, brutality shocked me more. Now, survival does. For all the times I’ve seen people come out the other side of horrors with their sanity seemingly intact, I have never really understood how it’s done”

‘There’s nothing like the presence of an outside to heighten one’s enjoyment of being an insider’

‘There’s nothing like the presence of an outsider to heighten one’s enjoyment of being an insider’