Category: Nonfiction
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FIGHTING THE LION by Lydia Cyrus
My great-grandfather was named Martin and when he got to a certain age—somewhere after sixty but no one can say for sure now—he had to be locked up in the back bedroom of the house. He was mean and he would yell and beat on people. Martin died long before I was born. I’ve heard…
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ASUNCION FEVER by Beverly Burch
Asuncion Fever: Anxiety, Euphoria, Secrecy, Travesty, and Lost Culture A twenty-four-hour flight—Miami, Sao Paulo, Asuncion—a decrepit taxi, a tired lawyer, an office far south, these are the beginning of what I remember. It was the unstoppable hunger some women feel, desire for a baby, that took us to Paraguay to begin a weeks-long adoption process. Asuncion…