Almina Herbert

…The next structure was Colonel Ian Denestoon, and the specific variety of chaos it eventually produced deserves its own careful account.…

…Almina moved forward in the way that she always moved forward not with resolution of the thing that had been left incomplete, but with the next thing, the next decision, the next structure that might provide the organization and purpose that the previous one had supplied, and that the interval between them consistently failed to offer.…

…He disappears from Almina's story at this point, back into the fragmented history of the Ottoman diaspora and the various paths that its members took through the rest of the twentieth century.…