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An Imagined True Memoir of Spain’s Pact of Forgetting The Cross with no Name Inheriting Our Names tells of the author’s search for her mother’s, and her grandmother’s, history and begins with the author sitting at the feet of the statue of the Virgin in the Basilica de la Macarena in Seville, fingering her grandmother’s rosary beads and attempting to say the cycle of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. 'I am trying to learn how to use the Seven Sorrows as a map, some kind of chart whe

A novella, hardly more than a short story, this little book is pure, condensed Alan Bennett from the title onwards.

Angle of Repose