FOR THEIR PAINS
Feb 28, 2021
4 minutes
In Fracture, Matthew Parris catalogues “five horsemen of the childhood apocalypse” – events or circumstances that create a visceral experience of trauma. Unsurprisingly, the loss or desertion of parents is a very common one, but the presence of bad parents can be just as devastating in Parris’ canon.
Poverty and war, or a state of constant imperilment, are also common scenarios. Often, the Fracture case studies are multifactorial, in the following broad categories:
: The painter Frida Kahlo’s crippling polio was later compounded by attendant muscle atrophy and spinal curvature. Her upbringing was by impecunious and rancorously ill-suited parents, themselves often ill, who failed to
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