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I Get It; I Hear You: Vanessa Cuti’s ‘Our Children’ - BASS Review 2021

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On the wall at Explora Kids Museum, Albuquerque  I read this story for the second time, attempting to annotate, as I followed my kids around Explora, a children’s museum in Albuquerque, NM. Despite the overstimulation everywhere, children’s museums are not typically places where I fantasize about abandoning my children. I am usually in awe of them in places like this, watching them think in ways I’d never considered, being little scientists. And yet I get it , Vanessa Cuti , and your unnamed protagonist. I tried to write this analysis many times in our domestic settings, as we moved from Albuquerque to Flagstaff, and my copy of BASS 2021 just got shifted around the houses, ever optimistic, ever accommodating toy cars and science experiments and felt-tipped pens, the demands on my attention too great to finish this piece. I didn’t want anything as cold as a glacier, but I was craving a clear expanse.     All the women and children are unnamed in this story. I immediately noticed the l