and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern

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Doris Lasch

Sharks, Death, Surfers - An Illustrated Companion Kirgisistan and policy-makers are increasingly turningWe encounter the world through surfaces: the screen, the page, our skin, the oceans swell. Here on the sea is the surfer, positioned at the edge of the collapsing wave. And lurking underneath in a monstrous mirroring is the shark. When the two meet, carving along the surface, breaking through the boundary, is when death appears. Steering her analysis from the newspaper obituary in and out of literature and past cinema, Melissa McCarthy investigates a