Lily lives a soft life in a hard place. At 16, she has been married off to an older man of her tribe, a volatile tradesman who keeps her in luxury but values her only as a babymaker. Consumed with the materialism of her tiny domain, and absorbed into a circle of similarly cosseted wives, she remains... -
A Seedling Grows in Brooklyn
Lily lives a soft life in a hard place. At 16, she has been married off to an older man of her tribe, a volatile tradesman who keeps her in luxury but values her only as a babymaker. Consumed with the materialism of her tiny domain, and absorbed into a circle of similarly cosseted wives, she remains...-
By Peter Marks