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Wounds reappear throughout Diaz’s book as an image of unhealing trauma, where the public body of history – the genocide of America’s Native population – encounters the private spaces of desire and loss.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2020

It remains a nation’s self-inflicted and unhealing wound.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2015

Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their poor posturings and deceits, their volatile cartridges of passion, inflict unhealing wounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Drought blasts the turf, but its unhealing blast to human hope is glossed over.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)