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by Madhur Anand Strange Light, 320 pages “Some viruses have envelopes. Some letters are best left unopened. Now my mother is on the phone telling me to get my flu shot.” The virus that alters the course of life in Madhur Anand’s This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart is polio; her father contracts the illness as an infant and is left with a lifelong limp. His uneven gait is one of the many asymmetries that tug at the reader’s attention in this “memoir in halves.” The book itself is asymmetrical, one “half” being slightly longer than the other. The first half, titled “Th...

Where is Przemysl, Poland Przemysl, the city of around 60 thousand inhabitants, is located in the south-east part of Poland, near the border with Ukraine (it’s some 10 km away). Rzeszów, the capital of Podkarpackie Region that Przemyśl is part of, is 80 km away, Kraków 250 km away and Lviv (Ukraine) – 100 km away. Due to its location, Przemysl is very well connected with numerous places in Poland and Ukraine. There are frequent trains to Rzeszów, Kraków, Warsaw, and the rest of Poland. You will also find daily direct connections to numerous cities in Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv, Odessa, and...