A Year in Reading: Porochista Khakpour
2022 was one of the most traumatizing years of my life although, to be fair—it included love and friendship and adventure and all that good stuff too. I always hear it’s hard to read when we are in a state of constant -fire/dog life, but my brain—my, um, indelicately barbecued 2022 brain—tells me that is all the more reason to read! There’s all the usual cliches—reading as escape, reading as immersion, reading for empathy, etc but I think there is even more. I start to trip over myself when I try to explain what that is and how it often.
