Alison Lurie is a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her novel Foreign Affairs. She has also edited many children’s
books.
Her card reads:
“Freedom is a necessity, like air and water”
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched
cookies.
The war has begun.
-A. L.