Since early June, Dhananjay and I have been traveling on some combination of a writing retreat and a belated, post-pandemic romantic vacation: our first international travel together. A few weeks ago, a dear friend came to Tbilisi to join us for a week. “Thank you,” she teased us, “for letting me crash your honeymoon.”
Have you ever gotten the chance to read A Severe Mercy? It's a beautiful portrait of a marriage that begins more as one contra mundum, believing choosing each others means choosing to exclude everything that they can't do together (which, for them, includes excluding children—since the experience of pregnancy can't be fully shared). The marriage cracks open (letting in air) when they both convert to Christianity.
Have you ever gotten the chance to read A Severe Mercy? It's a beautiful portrait of a marriage that begins more as one contra mundum, believing choosing each others means choosing to exclude everything that they can't do together (which, for them, includes excluding children—since the experience of pregnancy can't be fully shared). The marriage cracks open (letting in air) when they both convert to Christianity.