What makes "The Last Children of Mill Creek" such a good read is that Gibson tells the story of a Black working-class family surviving in a segregated city through the eyes of an observant young girl.
Three Tidbits, SLM Dining's long-running odds and ends article that used to appear in this space every Monday (featuring Hotspots, Insider Tips, and Microrants) can now be found in the Dining newsletter, which publishes every Friday morning.
In 2019, American Andy Bass met three women—Zahra Nazari, her sister Fatima, and her mother, Bilqis Rezai—in Afghanistan. When the situation began to deteriorate there last summer, he sprang into action.