History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold

Roads and rivers run straight off the page; mountain ranges keep rising outside of the frame. A biography may be bounded by birth and death, but the life it tells is entwined with endless others. Its fabric, no matter how carefully woven, drags a train of trailing threads. Janice P. Nimura on meeting the descendants of her subjects.
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