New at PB: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera reflects on exile through the words of Edward Said, James Joyce, and through the story of his grandfather, whose life took him from Ireland to Massachusetts to Puerto Rico.
“Said's ‘Reflections on Exile’ summoned to mind the only 7 words my grandfather ever said to me about Ireland, where he had cousins he never knew: ‘I don’t think I’ll go back there.’”
