Depression is always in the details.

Depression is always in the details.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.