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Granta 166: Generations Online
Generation Gap
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
Generation Gap
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
Generation Gap
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
Generation Gap
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
Generation Gap
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Y-Dang Troeung
Y-Dang Troeung was a researcher, writer and assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She was the author of Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, and she co-directed the short film Easter Epic and organised the exhibition Remembering Cambodian Border Camps, 40 Years Later at Phnom Penh’s Bophana Center. She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of forty-two. ‘Mute Tree’ is an excerpt from her memoir Landbridge, forthcoming from Allen Lane in the UK and Knopf in Canada.
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