Katherine Ashenburg

Vale of tears

‘Some places are drenched with sorrow,’ a character in The Winter Vault tells his son, and the son reflects that some people are like that too.

issue 06 June 2009

  • The Winter Vault

    Anne Michaels

    Bloomsbury, pp. 341

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