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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Claudia Salazar Jimenez

Claudia Salazar Jiménez holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from NYU. Her first novel, La sangre de la aurora, was awarded the prestigious Premio Las Américas. She lives in New York.

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Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 ·

Letter to Salvador

Claudia Salazar Jimenez and Elizabeth Bryer

How can I write if I look at my hands and they seem to me formless lumps? I can barely pick up the spoon to taste a mouthful of soup. The other day a young woman, a work colleague, tried to assist me, but I refused her help. That my hands have lost something of their human form is daily humiliation enough. I don’t want her compassionate eyes on me. This was what happened, Salvador. You summoned me and I came back to life.