“The suppression of memory is often what sustains suffering across generations. To overcome trauma, we need the freedom to remember”

Review by Nadia Beard, “Road to Remembrance,: Financial Times Life & Arts“, 5/6 August 2023, p. 7, from the book by Tom Parfitt, High Caucasus, A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland. 2023. Headline publisher.
WANTAGH, NEW YORK – MAY 24: Olivia Grant (R) hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothes line during Memorial Day Weekend on May 24, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. It is the first time they have had contact of any kind since the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown started in late February. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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