By Susan Muaddi Darraj
An excerpt from A Curious Land:
When Rabab reduced the magad and clapped-clapped to the good in her mother’s too-big slippers, the stone jar digging into her shoulder, she didn’t, in the beginning, see the physique. The morning solar glazed every thing round her—the cement houses, the iron rails alongside one wall, the bars at the home windows, the stones round the well—and made her squint her itchy eyes.
She was once hungry. That used to be all.
They’d arrived the following basically final evening, preventing once Awwad and the boys have been certain the military had moved south. It should have been the 3rd time in exactly a couple of weeks—collapse the tents, load the mules, disappear into the sands. She was hoping this conflict may finish quickly, and she or he didn’t relatively care who gained, so long as it ended simply because they hadn’t eaten good in years. long ago few months, her mom had bought all her gold, aside from her bracelet made from liras. It was once the single factor left, and she or he used to be protecting onto it, and Rabab discovered, so have been all of them; she imagined that, the day it was once bought, while her mother’s wrist was once naked, could sign that they have been on the end.
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