The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in MotionAminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non human world. Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, The Window Seat, she

as well as the corresponding methods of survival by the people

had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition

Only after his appointment as RC Archbishop of Lusaka

and Moroccan restaurants are spring up in urban areas

There are lighthearted photos from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

written by debut author Ashley Franklin and perfect for fans of such titles as Matthew A

”―Alice Walker

The colleague posed 50 varied questions to me to which I gave extended answers

from whence cometh my help

and it awakens feelings she doesn't understand

who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders

And she’s finally managed to build a happy life