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"... like an invisible skein of spider silk that this is a life familiar to them both, from back then, from before. It is their original map: the rising at dawn. the baking of bread, the milking of beasts the tilling of soil, the gathering of eggs. One eye on the weather at all times the other on the land or the youngers or the fire."

"Maps can be read for many things - geography both natural and man-made - and Tomás made sure that the Great Hunger was inscribed on his drafts and in his name books, that it was recorded, in symbols and writing, that its effects and scars would be seen, its evidence and testimony unmissable, for all time."