My Turn in the Fire

At twelve she joined her parents in lyn. [...]new home was only a borough away from the epicenter of world publishing, and her journey supplied her with the subject for which she is best known-the paradoxes of migration.At the time, though, the move to America seemed to put her dream farther out of reach. The title invoked the figure of the storyteller, whose exchange with the audience-the storyteller says, "Krik?" and the audience must reply, "Krak!"-establishes her authority while acknowledging that hers is just one voice in a chorus. Some communities will send a young man into a forest and leave him there to fend for himself;if he comes back alive, he is considered a man. The butterfly that leaves the cold climate is not the same one that returns the following spring.