Chapter 22 Recovered Ritual isn’t something that happens only in temples here. The whole city throbs with it: festivals erupting into trance and song, women possessed by spirits, ancestors remembered with offerings, the boundary between the ordinary and the divine blurring in music, dust, and sweat. Nearby, Tarmo’s phones are arrayed like instruments. He switches…
Tag: Russian women
A Birthday Zavet
from one woman crossing borders to all of you Dear sisters, friends, strangers-who-feel-familiar, I have crossed many frontiers in my life. Most of them were man-made. I lived by my own rules. For years I thought this letter belonged only to Russian women. I wrote it with their faces in my mind: ballerinas who escaped,…
The C.O.M.C. Files 