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The commonality of it, for those who manage to make the passage into adulthood, in no way lessens the vast jumble of experience that childhood visits upon us. It is a time of wonderment, delight, trauma, mystery, terror, vulnerability, animation, ignorance, growth, obsession, frustration, dread, callousness, curiosity, anger, learning, duplicity, joy, and pain: a trial by fire whose mixed reward is most often more of the same when we grow older. In these stories, poems, novel excerpts, memoirs, and essays, darkness often mingles with laughter—not merely the laughter of innocence but that of freshly earned knowledge.
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Cover art: Untitled (Vivian Girls Watching Approaching Storm in Rural Landscape), by Henry Darger. From the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Museum purchase and anonymous gift in recognition of Sam Farber. Copyright © Kiyoko Lerner.
From Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration