“In this day and age, what we expect when we read about a girl on the cusp of adolescence, journeying on her own, is that she’s going to be subject to predation—but this was not the story that was growing through me.”
“When a family member becomes unrecognizable, says Lloyd, “that’s a tragedy, and any effort to make complete sense of it is bound to fail.”
In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning.
I knew that not all Jewish guys my age could be callow, shallow and immature, but eventually it dawned on me that I had bigger obstacles than my Jews-only mindset.
