About once a year, we have a family gathering in our hometown. My sister, who’s taken on the role of our family archivist (being the last one to move out), always pulls out the photo albums and home DVDs – footage from birthday parties, our mother doing our hair, making up beds on the floor for sleepovers, or moments our parents took pride in, seen as echoes of their hard work: dance and piano recitals from another life, school award ceremonies – the achievements of the children of two people who, for a few years during the economic boom of the 2000s, had managed to lift themselves out of the working class with small-time businesses in mohair, wood paneling, and Turkish-made double glazing.

Deniz Otay

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[:ro]Poetă, traducătoare, PR al Editurii Vellant. A publicat volumul Fotocrom Paradis (2020). A inițiat Linia autoarelor, o campanie pentru promovarea muncii femeilor în literatură. Pasionată de modă și de pisici.[:]

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