As a writer, too, I have been struggling with what my writing has to offer in a world where terrors are now color-coded, where the dust from our tumbled-down towers is still floating in the air, where most recently a hurricane has created our very own refugee situation. “It’s just no something we’re used to,” a baffled local official in New Orleans being interviewed on NPR noted. “I mean if we were in a third world country, we’d be used to this.” I heard much the same remark about terrorism on our own shores after Sept. 11.
— Julia Alvarez
( The Washington Post )
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