Tali Perch

Tali Perch earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in SweetLit, Under the Gum Tree, Colorado Review, Longreads, Mom Egg Review, Burningword, and others. Tali’s essay “Records on Bone” (2019) was nominated by Colorado Review for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, Tali is working on a memoir about growing up as a Soviet Jewish émigré during the Cold War.

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Extraction

By Tali Perch January 9, 2023

When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain. Were you entitled to it? Was it real?