Cover design by Gillian Arthur
Santiago Writers, whose members’ cultural roots lie in America, Argentina, Canada, England, Guyana and Japan, bring distinct writing styles to this, their second anthology. Many of their stories are influenced by Chile’s equally diverse geography – its high desert, mountainous spine, Patagonian plain – familiar settings though not always ‘home’ to the writers. Yet readers needn’t have lived in foreign parts to discover themselves in the pages of this book. As British author, Crysse Morrison, writes in her introduction,
“What I love about this anthology is the sense of collaborative exploration of this process of transit and transience. This collection teems with women facing challenges and celebrating the landscapes they travel, and the culture and characters they experience. The mother who watches an intrepid pedestrian and sees her own son’s braveness mirrored, the wife who consents to yet one more house-move but on her own terms, the woman who finds courage singing the songs of her childhood as danger threatens – these and many other narrators tell of times of crisis, and of ordinary moments illuminated into epiphanies.”
In Transit, priced at £7.00 or US$14.00, plus packing and postage, can be purchased by contacting Gillian Arthur.
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