Curated reading lists. Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket, Narratively The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser The Things We Do for Love, Roxane Gay. The pictures in this essay are breathtaking. While reading Roxane’s words, I felt I was in Antarctica with Roxane and her wife, …
Month: February 2023
‘I’ve Selected a Wife for You,’ My Grandfather Was Told. He Married Her Sister.
My grandparents’ arranged marriage that planted its feet and stood rooted for 67 years strikes me as something magical. At mid-day, on September 12, 2009, a couple—an 80-year-old black man and an 83-year-old black woman, their hands clasped in a tight hold—walked into a doctor’s office in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Their names …