The World Does Not Turn

Anakana Schofield Is Part Of A New Wave Of Wonderful Irish Fiction-international In Scope And Electrically Alive.

I Was Fascinated By The Lack Of A Word For A Parent Who Has Lost A Child. We Have No Word In English. I Thought For Sure There'd Be A Word In Irish But There Is None. And Then I Looked In Several Other Languages And Could Not Find One, Until I Found The Word Sh'khol In Hebrew. I'm Still Not Sure Why So Many Languages Don't Have A Word For This Sort Of Bereavement, This Shadowing.

This Is Not My Life. These Are Not My Cobwebs. This Is Not The Darkness I Was Designed For.

What Was A Life Anyway? An Accumulation Of Small Shelves Of Incident.

I Have Different Books For Different Times Of The Day, Let Alone Different Seasons Of The Year!