Nora Treatbaby

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Nora Treatbaby |Lidia Yuknavitch |Didi Jackson

Vi Khi Nao’s novel The Italy Letters begs the question: What is the limit of our suffering before itbecomes self-pity? In this particular economicsystem at this particular time, the possibility ofa dignified financial life is waning for those of uswho by circumstance or fate were not grantedwealth and ease. Personal experience is a validform of structural critique. The pursuit of moneyand love marks our lives and rarely do these tragically twinned desires not contradict each other.