Why do children invent imaginary friends? To have the companionship they don’t enjoy elsewhere. To provide themselves with reassurance. To stretch their minds.
Why do adults invent imaginary friends? To survive a pandemic.
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When I first set out to write Acts of Assumption, back in 2014, I had no intention of producing something “timely.” I had no plan to provide what one Haitian friend called “a much-needed, eye-opening and affectionate introduction to three ‘outsider’ cultures—Jewish, Latina and gay— that are so often misjudged in this country.
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