‘He had no special powers, nor was he brave …’

Acadian Elegies is a series of 24 texts that appropriate sentences from hundreds of obituaries. The narratives extend and mingle the stories of dozens of 20th-century Americans with that of my father, who died in 1969 at age 30, before I was born. The source texts have not been altered except to remove proper names Their particular facts are employed to tell stories about no one in particular, creating an imagined space in which my father can find a place of sorts.” — Emile LeBrun

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