New Article by Amanda Petrusich, Illustrated by Molly in this month’s VQR, online and in print. 

Here, justice works like this: When a man is murdered, his family avenges his death by similarly executing either the killer himself or a male member of his clan. Sometimes, after a killing has been successfully vindicated, the feud is settled. Other times, the head of the family that initiated the feud, while admitting both sides are now ostensibly “equal,” nonetheless chooses to perpetuate the cycle by killing a second male from the avenging family. “In this way the feud might rage backwards and forwards for years or even generations, each family being in turn murderer and victim, hunter and hunted,”

– Amanda Petrusich

Full article here: http://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2017/10/land-vendettas-go-forever