Maria M. Tumarkin

"How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past -ours, our family's, our culture's- wields in the present? Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide,...