Gabby’s Reviews > Human Acts > Status Update

“Gripped by this familiar shame, she thought of the dead, for whom the absence of life meant they would never be hungry again. But life still lingered on for her, with hunger still a yolk around her neck.”

“ if we’ve been given a little more time, might we have arrived, eventually, at a moment of understanding?”

“ no one had ever taught me how to address a person‘s soul.”

“The national anthem rang out like a circular refrain, one verse clashing with another against the constant backdrop of weeping, and you listened with bated breath to the subtle dissonance this created. As though this finally might help you understand what the nation really was.”