Kate Gaul – Good With Maps
When the world map was full of gaps, the Amazon basin topped the list of places unknown to explorers. On a trip to the Amazon, the writer ponders this and other questions, as she struggles to deal with her father’s journey through Parkinson’s towards our last great unknown – death. Sometimes sad and confronting, often funny and thoughtful, Noëlle Janaczewska’s performance essay celebrates the power of reading and literature to transport us to places both real and imagined.
