BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS

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Who and what do we love?

Who and what do we love?

Giving words to complex trauma and living in uncertainty with Noreen Masud's new book, A Flat Place

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Carissa Potter
Jun 08, 2023
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You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

- Mary Oliver

In her recent beautifully poetic nature memoir, Noreen Masud explores the question of who and what do we love after her father’s death. Noreen grew up with her mother and sisters basically imprisoned by her father in Lahore, Pakistan in their two-bedroom apartment. “Nothin…

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