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30 pages in and my main takeaway is that in the 9th century Baltic kings drank horse milk and the peasants drank mead. As a proud North-Central-Asian, I hereby declare myself Baltic royalty.

why is everything in tiny blurbs. why can't they just publish the whole interview with each person all at once, so i can stop feeling like i'm going insane. Or at least make it a page-long, like in Alexievich does it.

am I projecting or did the scene of her at a cafe with her son make anyone else want to start sobbing?