Visitations

In Visitations, Dana, a solitary Eastern European woman, dies in a New Zealand nursing home, leaving behind a trove of notebooks and a trail of memories. The nurse who discovers them is drawn into Dana’s life, memories, tragedy and a quest to make her world right again. As she reads, she navigates through profound sorrow and complex emotions, experiencing both the strangeness and allure of the woman’s memoir-like writings.

Daniela Dragas’s lyrical prose combines tragedy with philosophical i...