Lauren Groff

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Kabir Dhanji. Four men walking across the desert in the Afar toward the village of Buri, in eastern Ethiopia, an area riddled with fossils dating back as far as 4.2 million years, March 16, 2020

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LALIBELA, ETHIOPIA—I came to Ethiopia for book research that has to do with displacement and Eden, and tracing our beginnings as humans. How could I have known that the trip I had meticulously planned for months would be so ill-timed, that the world would be so anxious about endings?

I left the United States when coronavirus cases seemed localized in California and New York, but hand-sanitizer was already gone from shops. The day I landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia confirmed its first case of coronavirus.

A bellyful of worry increasingly accompanies my quest to contemplate our origins, the history of our relationship with place, and human movement, ancient and modern.…  Seguir leyendo »