I began reading Laurie Ricou’s Salal: Listening for the Northwest Under
Review of "Holden After & Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose" by Tara McGuire.
The postcard presents a series of absences—the nameless photographer,
the unknown writer and recipient; it is constituted by what is unknown
Violence could not reach them only when they were distant as the moon, not of this world