Raft of Leaves : On Aging, Death and Foreignness

Aging, death and foreignness were personal and academic interests of Marti Parker, a professor of social gerontology at the Karolinska Institutet Aging Research Center. Parker wrote short fiction and poetry and published two novels under the pen names M. Gale Parker and Martha Gale. Raft of Leaves gathers some of Parker’s writings, along with short stories, essays and poems by other writers.