My Mother Laughs Bill Johnstone taking the reader from Nineveh

taking the reader from Nineveh in 640BC

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Patrick Chapman’s fifth collection

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My Mother Laughs Bill Johnstone taking the reader from NinevehIn 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed