Archive for March, 2014

La porte du ciel is a bright patchwork. We follow “two little girls under the Louisiana sun, one brown as tea, the other white as milk,” through childhood, adolescence, and the American Civil War.

I was twenty years old when I met Ueno Takami, the Japanese poet. Some said he was a monk, others that he had a wife and two children, still others that he was the president of a large Japanese importing firm.
At the time I didn’t know what the truth was.

Espaces is a deeply unsettling piece of writing that provides insights into people’s deepest fears. While the setting is typical of a coming-of-age story, the content is anything but hopeful and carefree.