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“Masud brings together her love of flat landscapes—she has written about flat landscapes and literature as an academic—with her experience of confinement by her father while growing up in Pakistan, and her diagnosis of complex PTSD. Flat landscapes become both a memory and a metaphor in this book. It doesn’t sound, in my description, as amazing as it is in practice, you’ve just got to try it. It’s quite extraordinary.” Read more...
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Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian
“he writes so extraordinarily, so amazingly about that relationship between the body and the mind, an embodied experience of living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. And the experience of trying to be a body in place, when you feel really disconnected from that body. For her, she finds comfort in flat places, and the book is a kind of journey through different flat landscapes.” Read more...
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Polly Atkin, Memoirist
