"Sometimes I reach my hands around in the sand for a plastic shovel or a rake. I’ll do this nearly naked, wet with saltwater, its sticky thick scent makes sense at the border."
Alex Forman is...
Forman’s poetic and inscrutable bits-and-pieces portraits give us as much as any history truly can: a series of discreet and questionable revelations...
As biographer and historian, Forman gathers her found facts, rumors, and reports into expository prose, gathering composites into an animated composition...