Violet Kupersmith: Build Your House Around My Body [2021] paperback BEAUT given as a long-term loan

given as a long-term loan from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation

the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady

'Surprising and original

they pretend and they predate

Violet Kupersmith: Build Your House Around My Body [2021] paperback BEAUT given as a long-term loan1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father, and is forever changed by the experience. 2011: Twenty five years later, a young, unhappy American named Winnie disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and