Many Seasons
Many Seasons is a skein, an elaborate tangle unraveling and being rewound. This story and the self inside it must get undone in order to be seen and painstakingly reassembled. Just as personhood is non- linear, in this story, memory mingles with moment and matter-of- factly presents the formidable questions: Are attachments a reward or a burden? Stability or freedom? Independence, or that obvious one: love? Ana, our protagonist, steadily excavates all of this—along with generations of familial patterns, both repeating and interrupting them in her own evolving family.
Photo by Jennifer Brommer
Frances Badalamenti is the author of the novels I Don’t Blame You, Salad Days and Many Seasons. Her personal essays, short stories and interviews can be found at The New Yorker, The Believer Magazine, BOMB, Vol.1 Brooklyn and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops and works as a mentor for writers.
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