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In 1480 John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devil goat on his way to collect water

Departure(s): A Novel Children's Journal Writing But she is always aOn the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a storyor a story within the storybut not just yet. Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or