The setting might be a shelter during Hurricane Katrina. People, their faces smudged with dirt, huddle amid the detritus of ordinary life: toppled traffic signs, overturned shopping cart, battered blue toilet, a bed. In the crowd is a tiny girl. To comfort her, the refugees begin to tell -- and... -
'Story' Knits Together Wry Yarns
The setting might be a shelter during Hurricane Katrina. People, their faces smudged with dirt, huddle amid the detritus of ordinary life: toppled traffic signs, overturned shopping cart, battered blue toilet, a bed. In the crowd is a tiny girl. To comfort her, the refugees begin to tell -- and...-
By Celia Wren