ESSAY I want to know what became of the girl but my aunts don’t know anything more about her, not even her name.
Ashes Above Us
Courtney Angela Brkic
Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of The First Rule of Swimming (Little, Brown, and Company, 2013), Stillness: and Other Stories (FSG, 2003) and The Stone Fields (FSG, 2004). Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Zoetrope, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Harpers & Queen, the Utne Reader, National Geographic, and Slate.com among others. She teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.
