Repetition: A Novel D.M. Low Stave Churches in Norway

Stave Churches in Norway

the Jillion is a celebration of their curiosity

Piet Oudolf

Remote Sympathy examines the intersection of ordinary domestic life with extraordinary moral circumstances

Repetition: A Novel D.M. Low Stave Churches in NorwayIn a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side. She thinks back to her sixteenth year. The year she first got drunk and the year she first had sex with a boy. A year of being circled by an anxious, hawkish mother and, at a notable distance,