The brutality of meat as family, covered in the beauty of flowers, of stubborn trees. This in a patriarchal hot house that scorches life to death. Perhaps ‘this, finally, might help you understand what the nation really was’ (201). The book closes.

The brutality of meat as family, covered in the beauty of flowers, of stubborn trees. This in a patriarchal hot house that scorches life to death. Perhaps ‘this, finally, might help you understand what the nation really was’ (201). The book closes.