Ducks, Newburyport Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018) ”—Zahira Mohd Sedik

”—Zahira Mohd Sedik

It is a nameless thing

When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches

there's the moving castle…a towering

and how the pull of motherhood cuts across them all

Ducks, Newburyport Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018) ”—Zahira Mohd SedikLATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of happy couples, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks n beans? A