
Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments
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Very Cold People, Is a Book Review
The diary was my way of finding a path out of constant rumination. It takes us criticise children a long time to escape the influence of our mothers and fathers. The things that the mother says are joined, aided and abetted by the things the father says in return. And so this is a very scrutinized ild. Now, i think that in order to be a writer, you have to be looking carefully, but in order to being a child, you can't be looked at too carefully. If you are, you end up being overwhelmed and frightened by just about everything you do.
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