Connecting Generations in Nate Powell’s “Conjurers”

Matthew Teutsch
5 min readAug 9, 2021

I’ll always remember sitting at the table in my grandparents house and the smells that would float through the room as my grandmother whipped up food for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I distinctly remember the salmon cakes and the vegetable soup. However, the one treat that always makes my olfactory nerve and taste buds perk up, sending electric impulses to my brain and triggering a feeling of…

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Matthew Teutsch

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