“This morning, before your arrival, a blond boy with red knees called out to me imperiously, 'Your feeder’s empty, Mevrouw Bon! You should fill it!'”
“In late February or early March, I walked across the frozen Tumen River toward a man from China, ready to give my unborn child a different life."
“There were deer all over the road. He drove past a street crew in orange vests carrying a dead one off to the side of the highway, gripping the animal by its dainty hooves and moving it like they were carrying a small table upside down. After that, he saw more and more of the deer: some whole, some ripped in half, some just pieces of raw meat.”