Elissa Altman is the author of, most recently, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing.
Elissa Altman
Lay of the Land
Inside the Waiting
SHE SITS ACROSS from us, the middle-aged Black woman in the orange vinyl-upholstered chair, her eyes red and swollen, gripping a tissue that has been disintegrating for the last two hours into Continue reading