I was bound for an M.B.A. after college, but I liked to sit around the table late at night, drunk and high, smoking cigarettes and arguing points that I had barely grasped in seminar.
But how do I explain such things to my children, when I can barely grasp such horrors myself?
During my first few years in America, none of my ESL teachers asked about my background how smart and confident I'd been back in Taiwan, and how much I struggled to bring that confidence to classrooms where I could barely grasp the language.
I can barely grasp the horror faith has wrought throughout history, and I see evidence of its continuing impact.
But so far it has been the painful realities that I can barely grasp that force me to the drawing table.
In truth, I can barely grasp the difference between what the NSA's Prism and XKeyscore programs do.
This is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill.
Born to proudly German secular Jews, he had barely grasped that he was Jewish before he heard that Jews were evil and not really German.
It was the first league title game to go into overtime (a concept players barely grasped before returning to the field; Gifford said some were upset because they wanted to go home).
Reviewing The Loney for the Guardian, Sarah Perry called it a masterpiece that could be held up "alongside those of Walpole, Du Maurier, Maturin and Jackson", while Julie Myerson, reviewing for the Observer, said it is "a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill.
I can just barely grasp how much the home farm has changed since Everon was born.
