“is lighter than the learning”
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For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Mark Ford “is lighter than the learning”Shortly after a man and a woman meet for the first time in a second hand clothes shop in Belfast, a bomb goes off. It is some time in the 1970s. They become lovers. For All We Know is their story, told in the recent past: a meditation on love, place, memory, loss and language, how people know each other, misunderstand each other, or translate each other, not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control. Gesturing towards a