RaveCityLabBroom bring[s] to the fore new tales of storied cities, restoring reality in the middle of folklore ... venerate[s] these kinds of experiences and the place where it occur[s], elevating and amplifying it as if to assert that the people who live, love, and have lost in these obscured coordinates are just as important, valuable, human as the iconic figures and events that created these cities’ popular legend ... For these women to re-inhabit these places, for these authors to write them into memory, compels us to contemplate their destruction and dismissal. For me to bear witness to the reckoning and remembering was an honor—and the closest I’ve come thus far to my own literary homecoming.
