A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatness" and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature’s…
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