“The puzzle’s an incomplete circus, the pieces touching each other in all these ways, and there’s a hitch in our back from where you’ve hunched, but you’ve done it. You’ve put this thing together. Seams like veins pump blood through this cobbled-together catastrophe, this broken, beautiful mess.”

“The puzzle’s an incomplete circus, the pieces touching each other in all these ways, and there’s a hitch in our back from where you’ve hunched, but you’ve done it. You’ve put this thing together. Seams like veins pump blood through this cobbled-together catastrophe, this broken, beautiful mess.”

— Julia Drake