Lin has a husband, two daughters, close friends and moments of rare happiness. Inexorably, however, the dance-which is both her passion and her profession, imposes itself on her... and finally the day comes when she has to choose.
SLOW EMERGENCIES describes an irresistible impulse, a powerful energy which, from childbirth to abandonment and departure, is nevertheless always a movement towards life. Huston writes beautifully here about the dance, the unfathomable workings of time, the joys and terrors of motherhood, the unspeakable solitude of art, the beauty and vulnerability of the human body, the power of natural cycles, and the enigmatic imprint of family destiny.