My Name Is A Direct Line To A Colonizing Ancestry I Still Benefit From

About twenty pages into Sofia Samatar’s memoir The White Mosque, Sigmund Freud appears, sitting in a train compartment late at night. Up to this point, Samatar’s story has been primarily about her travels across Central Asia to study The Bride Sect, a Mennonite group who fled persecution in Russia toward the place they thought Jesus […] The post My Name Is A Direct Line To A Colonizing Ancestry I Still Benefit From appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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