St Marks artSpace, EdinburghThe author's tales of her ancestors' flight to the new world draw parallels with today's migrants in a show that honours the graceful economy of her proseWhen 10-year-old Andrew Laidlaw was taken to Edinburgh Castle in the early 19th century, his father, James, identified the strip of land across the blue water as America. Actually it was Fife, but that didn't stop patriarch James bundling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on August 14, 2016