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Writer, editor, and professor Elena Georgiou: author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants and mercy mercy me; co-editor of The World in Us...

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Sow’s Reflection

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What Is The Shape of Your Body? * (#2) **

In childhood, they told me I was a baby pig. Which caused a lot of confusion when I looked in the mirror and didn’t see a snout. But I went back to that mirror day after day until eventually my porcine nose came into focus. And that’s when I began to walk on all fours. It was difficult at first getting used to a body I couldn’t see. But you know what they say, if you are told something long enough, you start to believe it. I was reluctant to go the whole hog and begin grunting. Grunting felt unnatural. So I made a silk voice out of a sow’s reflection. Fortunately, I found I could sing.

 

* Question from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers.
** Bhanu wondered what would happen if I responded to one of her questions five times. And so I am trying it. This is my second response to this question.

NEW BOOK FOR 2018!

The Immigrant's Refrigerator
Fiction. Short Stories.
GenPop Books, 2018

If luck is on an author’s side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope.

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