A note from Anne Michaels
"From when do we begin to count the dead? All my writing life, I've asked that question. And I have been seeking, in the darkest moments in history, a specific hope, a hope that is inevitable, unassailable, a hope that one can trust with one's life - the only hope worth offering to a reader. I continue to believe, I must believe, that when writer and reader meet each other's gaze on the page, there is the possibility that something can be mended."
