Granta 80: The Group
Everyone has at some point in their life been a willing or reluctant member of a group. The family, of course – the initial group – and then the school class, the football side, the quiz team, the workplace, colleagues, fellows, friends and comrades. Group photographs are their souvenirs – fond and sometimes grim reminders of a previous way of life and the people who shared it. In this issue of Granta, writers take out their group photographs and remember the best and the worst.
In this issue
C. J. Driver: Used To Be Great Friends
Liz Jobey: Snaps
Christopher Barker: Life at Tilty Mill
Tim Guest: Orange People
Susan Meiselas: Prince Street Girls
Angela Lambert: Mummy
Geoff Dyer: On the Roof
Luke Harding: The Siege of Mazar-I-Sharif
Helon Habila: Another Age
Joyce Carol Oates: Soft Core
Lindsey Hilsum: Two Farms: One Black, One White
Paul Theroux: Scouting for Boys
Lindsay Watson: King’s Girls
Todd McEwan: The Elk’s Funeral
Marcos Villatoro: Seminarians
Stuart Christie: What Franco Did For Me
Read Online
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Two Farms: One Black, One White
The black-and-white tragedy of two farming families in Zimbabwe
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Another Age
A wonderful night in Nigeria
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Mummy
The reasons for hating Mummy
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On the Roof
When the dole was king
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Orange People
On growing up under the influence of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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Seminarians
On being Catholic in Tennesee
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Softcore
A tale of sibling rivalry