29/04/2025
⭐ CHAPBOOK FEATURE: We cannot leave without hoping to return. by Julia Hao
📖: We cannot leave without hoping to return is an earnest attempt to fossilize memories of leaving into a collection of lyric essays and photographs that can otherwise be seen as a memoir. Parted into four movements, it is a mapping of the trajectories of Julia Hao’s life, through reflections on the childhood home, the wounds inflicted by mothers on their daughters, the embracing of grief, and the acts of love and hope that transpire from it. In its coda, there is only the consummation of nostalgia — a wholeness — that claims no permanence, yet offers a consolation only found in the covalence of the forces that govern our most brutal and intimate experiences.
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