Author:: Souvankham Thammavongsa Full Title:: Edge of the World Tags:#media/article Link:: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2020/03/souvankham-thammavongsa-edge-world-short-story/607465/
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* There was a globe on Miss Soo’s desk at school, and whenever she talked about the oceans or the continents or plate tectonics, she would point to those features on it. I didn’t know whether what Miss Soo was telling me was true. I hadn’t thought to ask.
* Just because I never went to school doesn’t mean I don’t know things.” I think now of what my mother knew then. She knew about war, what it felt like to be shot at in the dark, what death looked like up close in your arms, what a bomb could destroy. Those were things I didn’t know about, and it was all right not to know them, living where we did now, in a country where nothing like that happened. There was a lot I did not know.