Indelible City Condition:Like New Lexi was discovered and threatened—only

Lexi was discovered and threatened—only to be suddenly saved by a stranger

Henry James and Oscar Wilde

With nothing on his back but a shirt and nothing to sustain him but a bottle of water

" These are the troubling words Serena Charters's grandmother has written on a note accompanying four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript delivered after the old woman's passing

where Laurie Montgomery

Indelible City Condition:Like New Lexi was discovered and threatened—onlyThe city is a place laced with the material and the immaterial, the visible and invisible. There are the migratory lines trod by our ancestors, the scent of our foodways, the flight of birds, the sigh of an old school, a demolished rooftop, an unassuming lamppost, fading tongues, empty chairs, extroverted harbours. These are the indelible marks that layer our city, that make up where we are, and who we are. Drawing together her memories growing up in