Vera Kachouh

Nov 11, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Xiao Hai |Tony Hao |Vera Kachouh |Emily Latimer

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Asked, Not Answered,” by .

Nov 7, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Vera Kachouh

Skip to content essays How many times can a person leave behind what they love before they feel like they’re being left behind with it?

Feb 7, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Vera Kachouh

Outside of my former house in Oakland there is an old fig tree. Its branches, gnarled and strong, show the scars of pruning and years of harvests. The tree provides figs in two bursts. The fruit of the first harvest, in early summer, is unseemly large with a bland, watery flesh. The second round of fruit at the end of summer is more sparing, with smaller figs, their flesh concentrated and sweet—red, like a fiery sunset. Those are the figs to wait for.