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Truly Poor

211 min read

Ela, come in, says Evangelia as I drive into the campsite. Their chained pit bull, spying my dog jumps atop a car wreck in the yard and bounds crazily up and down like a carousel horse. No matter. We sit down to a glass of cold water—it’s too hot

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Hedge Hog on the Grill

275 min read

It’s early evening at the Roma camp. A bonfire is blazing in the clearing of the olive grove and half a dozen young men gathered around it. The regulars lounge in plastic lawn chairs—Evangelia, her husband, Dimitri, the sisters, Taxiakoula and

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Maria Moon

188 min read

A new group of Mitsos’s extended family are visiting at the small sheds with canvas sides in the olive grove. A blond voluptuous woman who resembles Taxiakoula’s mama (probably a cousin), is there with her two daughters and son. Maria, her eldest,

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by Beatrice Hamblett

What Is Home

311 min read

I am looking at the photos I’ve made inside the small shacks in Skopelos where the Roma girls spent hot summer afternoons, lolling about on a big mattress laughing and talking. Photos inside the basement rooms where Mitsos and Konstandina’s family

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Mr. Hollywood

106 min read

I call him Mr. Hollywood. He is the handsome gypsy, a cousin of Mitsos’s, who dresses like a model with clean pressed shirts, stylish pegged pants and a gold cross at his throat. He is breathtakingly handsome with ice blue eyes and olive skin, hair

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by Beatrice Hamblett

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