The Family Tree
Margo Glantz
1981
I have a lovely period photo, sepia coloured, with all the characters in a row, and their gentle trusting faces, photograph faces that nobody ever looks at now. They are the shifbrider, the ship brothers, because besides blood brothers you can have all sorts of other kinds of brothers and these are ship brothers. The photo was taken in Amsterdam…
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