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Arranged in three parts, Kants Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claires most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messuds inquiry into the precarious nature of girlhood, the role narrative plays in giving shape to a life and the power of language. As the book progresses, we then see how these questions translate into Messuds rich body of criticism. In sections on literature and visual arts, Claire opens up the radical strangeness of childhood in Kazuo Ishiguros NEVER LET ME GO; the search for the self in Saul Friedlander; the fragility and danger of girlhood captured by Sally Mann; and the search for justice in Valeria Luisellis THE LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE. But it is the idea of the relationship between form and meaning to which this collection returns again and again. It is the tension between form and freedom - the paradox that fie
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