2024/092: A Flat Place — Noreen Masud
2024/092: A Flat Place — Noreen Masud
In the fens the pylons held up the empty sky, stopping it from collapsing on the land. They kept the flat from the flat, making a wide and soaring space through which I could walk. [loc. 1053]
An exploration, in beautiful lucid prose, of the author's complex PTSD (cPTSD): her difficult childhood in Pakistan; being disowned (along with two of her sisters, and her Scottish mother) by her Pakistani father; the intersectionality of racism, mental illness and misogyny.( Read more... )