The Anniversary Author Surname:Bajani Pearl Nolan's coastal allotment has

Pearl Nolan's coastal allotment has always been a quiet haven - somewhere for her to relax and cultivate special ingredients for her restaurant

Hannah Kaner

superstitions and legends from past and present

where spirits can be called and enslaved

The Anniversary Author Surname:Bajani Pearl Nolan's coastal allotment hasCan you leave your parents behind? Can you slam the door, walk down the stairs, and decide never to see them again? Can you ever escape the grip of your origins? A son asks himself these questions as he celebrates a bittersweet anniversary: it is a decade since he saw his parents. Now he finally feels able to tell their story. This is his lucid portrait of a family devastated by a father's violence and the woman who silently accepts him; of an airless