Lamarck

"The world is not always beautiful, as my mother says. My parents smile at each other and remember: the house my mother never wanted to live in, my uncle's mental illness that my grandparents never wanted to face, the nuclear war that never came. They talk about unrealized intentions. To be sterilized, to take one's own life, to pack up and leave." In Lamarck, Marian Mayland combines a look back at the rigid structures, economic constraints and psychological problems of family life in the 1980s/90s with a detailed examination of the interiors and exteriors of her parents' former market garden in the small town on the Dutch border where she grew up.