No Causality without Correlation: On Learning from Kendra Koivu

On the cover of The Sagas of Icelanders, there is a quote by the great Seamus Heaney. He writes that the almost-800-page tome is “a testimony to the human spirit’s ability not only to endure what fate may send it but to be renewed by the experience.” When I picked it up for her in September of 2019, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much that sounded just like Kendra Koivu.