the children’s house

Book Review: Alice Nelson’s The Children’s House is a moving and poetic meditation on grief and motherhood

New York, 1997. Marina, an academic who has been working on a book about members of the Hasidic community meets Constance, a young Rwandan woman who has come to America after the genocide. Marina watches as Constance walks away from her young son as he has a tantrum in the street and is struck by…

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