China Galland

China Galland is the author of Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, and others.

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Taking the Leap

The rose of a Pacific Ocean sunset poured through the windows as I woke up. I had fallen asleep on the living room couch shortly before dinner. Our house hung on a coastal hillside above a…

By China Galland

Fall 1998

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