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Novelist, poet, chewer of pencils. Science writer for @Perimeter. New poetry book from @BrickBooks and new middle-grade novel from @DisneyBooks in 2023!
Jan 6, 2023 17 tweets 3 min read
I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up. So, in 1973 there was this bank robbery In Stockholm. Two gunmen took four bank clerks hostage. This doesn't happen much in Sweden, and the police response can most charitably be described as inept. They surrounded the bank and kept it under siege for six days.