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Granta 55: Children: Blind, Bitter Happiness

What was it like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child? This issue describes the rearing, loving, loathing, and fearing of children, and includes some remarkable evocations of being a child. Jayne Anne Phillips, Blake Morrison, Adam Mars-Jones, David Mamet, Todd McEwen, Allan Gurganus, Leila Berg, and more.

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In this issue

MOTHERING
Adam Mars-Jones: Blind Bitter Happiness
Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Care
David Mamet: Soul Murder

FATHERING
Blake Morrison: Doctors and Nurses
Brian Hall: I Am Here

BEING
Leila Berg: Salford, 1924
Todd McEwen: Arithmetic Town
Judith Joy Ross: Hazleton Public Schools, Pennsylvania

DISCOVERING
Tony Gould: Blackmore’s Tart
Susan Swan: Sluts
Allan Gurganus: He’s One, Too

HATING
Joy Williams: The Case Against Babies

ENDURING
Karen E. Bender: Eternal Love

REMEMBERING
Abraham Brumberg: The Last Jews in Warsaw