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“Now you see what your father suffered.” “What?” I rubbed my eyes and looked up to find my aunt staring at me. “Yes, Barry, your ...
So now it was for me. I remember how, a few days after my visit to Sarah’s, Auma and I happened to run into an acquaintance of t ...
“Do you want to go?” Auma shook her head, a look of disgust on her face. “Ruth knows I’ve been here almost six months now. She d ...
Mark shrugged. “Not really.” “Don’t be so modest, dear,” Ruth said. “The things Mark studies are so complicated only a handful o ...
“Fine,” he said. “It’s nice to see my mom and dad, of course. And Joey-he’s really a great kid.” Mark cut off a bite of his samo ...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN T OWARD THE END OF my second week in Kenya, Auma and I went on a safari. Auma wasn’t thrilled with the idea. W ...
themselves, working the margins of a racial caste system, more visible and so more vulnerable to resentment. It was nobody’s fau ...
back through a series of high white clouds. To the right, a solitary mountain rose like an island in a silent sea; beyond that, ...
and humped shoulders that seemed too much for their slender legs to carry. Francis began to inch the van through the herd, and t ...
round and bright as jewels. I noticed a patch of haze in the otherwise clear sky and stepped farther away from the fire, thinkin ...
Dawn. To the east, the sky lightens above a black grove of trees, deep blue, then orange, then creamy yellow. The clouds lose th ...
“What do you say, Francis?” Mauro asked. For some time Francis had been reading a small, red-bound Bible. He looked up now and s ...
“You’ve become so fat!” she said. “Fat, eh?” Roy laughed. “A man needs a man-sized appetite.” He turned toward the kitchen. “Whi ...
Roy smiled. “Amy,” he said. “Amy?” “Amy. I’m going to marry her.” “What? How long has it been since you last saw her?” “Two year ...
“You don’t worry about being apart? I mean...” “Other women?” Amy laughed and winked at Roy. “I tell you honestly, I don’t care ...
floor, stepping to the soukous beat. Zeituni grabbed my hand, and Roy took Auma’s, and Amy took Bernard’s, and soon we were all ...
Roy stopped talking. We sat and stared at the shadows, oversized and faint off the lattice fence. “It was an accident, Roy,” I s ...
One of the train’s crew came in to take our bedding order and tell us that food service had started, and so we all went into the ...
Roy ordered another beer. “Maybe that’s what made him so mean.” “I don’t know,” Zeituni said. “I think my father was always that ...
heard a thunderous voice saying only that it was time, and my entire body began to shake violently with the sound, as if I were ...
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