Author: Tessa Fontaine
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☆In the Midst of Public Catastrophe, I Was in My Own Private Disaster
Electric Literature • 30 Jan 2025 • ~6150 words
In this deeply personal essay, Tessa Fontaine contrasts her mothers health crisis, a personal disaster lived in isolation, with a devastating tornado in Tuscaloosa, where she lives, a communal disaster with a shared suffering in its aftermath. She ultimately returns to the neighb...