In her previous novels, Maggie O’Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance – geographic, temporal, cultural. In ‘The Hand That First Held Mine’ and ‘The Distance Between Us,’ characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.
Unfortunately, a lot people still don’t understand …– Karamo Brown
Unfortunately, a lot people still don’t understand queer culture.