The Burrow

I didn't mean to cry.  I was only asking a question.  There must have been something in the tone of my voice or the laughter in the audience, because the author turned and spoke from her heart to mine. It was magical. Vaddey Ratner , a mere slip of a thing, is tremendous.  Her intellect, her passion, her insight, her willingness to share... to share and to hope that she's making a difference.... denizens, her presentation at the Literary Society luncheon was something to behold. She analyzed her work as if we were sitting in Comp Lit 325,  not the Arizona Inn. We gauged the importance of her luscious depiction of the life she led, in the family compound,   In the Shadow of the Banyan , before Pol Pot.  Had we noticed changes in the sentence structure, the cadence, the word choices she made as her character drew further and further into herself? Reading aloud, drawing us deeper and deeper into the almost unimaginably bizarre world in which she found hers...