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People from Bloomington
Written by Atika Shubert, originally published in Litro Magazine
May 12, 2022
People from Bloomington
Written by Atika Shubert, originally published in Litro Magazine
May 12, 2022
People from Bloomington are strange indeed, at least in this translated collection of stories from Indonesian writer Budi Darma. In these seven fiction stories, Darma takes a mirror to the wide open spaces of the Midwest American college town of Bloomington, Indiana, where he studied for his PhD in the 1970s. What he reflects back is great loneliness, isolation and, despite all that space, a creeping claustrophobia.
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