EngagementA celebratory dinner and engagement ceremony is to be held at a large home in Our Village, in southeast Turkey. Halil, the cousin of the future bride, Leyla, is sent to a nearby village to buy the traditional cologne. Leylas sister, Maral, is told to go door to door to remind everyone to attend. Throughout the long day, the other women of the household clean, cook and toil. Meanwhile, a dust storm descends out of nowhere and a menacing mist settles

with the young nun the children call Mouse

young love

with the motley survivors of the massacre that inevitably comes

Scott Fitzgerald It’s 1941

along with a comprehensive index of key terms used to describe them

‘The world

place and moments of uncertainty coalescing into meaning

Kitty Fitzgerald

with excerpts from his latest novel Stella Maris

a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean

where she lectures at the University of Liverpool

and reclaims the intimate histories