My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.