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South Africa aren’t starving to death like they do in some of these Godforsaken countries. Don’t envy them, mind you, but compar ...
accustomed and which I had taken (perversely) as a sign of my own maturation-I had been forced to look inside myself and had fou ...
The airplane shook with some turbulence; the flight crew came to serve us dinner. I woke up the young Brit, who ate with impress ...
a fiancé-than by the fact that she’d recognized my name. That had never happened before, I realized; not in Hawaii, not in ...
We went to drop off Zeituni at Kenya Breweries, a large, drab complex where she worked as a computer programmer. Stepping out of ...
distinguishable from their counterparts in Singapore or Atlanta. It was an intoxicating, elusive mixture, a contrast that seemed ...
could believe that it would all hang together without computer terminals or fax machines. And all of this while a steady process ...
wave at the two waiters who remained standing by the kitchen, thinking they must have somehow failed to see us. For some time th ...
memories may seem almost fantastic to him now, distant and naive. He’s learned that the same people who controlled the land befo ...
had brought a bag of chocolates for the children, and they gathered around me with polite stares as the adults tried to explain ...
We said our good-byes around ten, promising to visit each and every relative in turn. As we walked to the door, Jane pulled us a ...
our grandfather, and our children would really know the land and speak Luo and learn our ways from the old people. It would belo ...
to do next, when a hand suddenly appeared on Auma’s shoulder. Auma turned to find the hand attached to a dark, wiry man dressed ...
pair of university students who sip sweet, creamed tea and eat samosas in a dimly lit teahouse. I smell him in the cigarette smo ...
particular place he wanted to go. I needed to talk to him about that, as I’d promised Auma I would-a man-to-man talk.... “You ha ...
side of our father’s cloven world. He didn’t resent me for this, it seemed. Not yet. Only he must have been wondering why I was ...
As the days wore on, though, my joy became tempered with tension and doubt. Some of it had to do with what Auma had talked about ...
if we-Auma, Roy, Bernard, and I-were all making it up as we went along. As if the map that might have once measured the directio ...
English, but she spoke mostly in Luo now. Even without the benefit of Zeituni’s translation, I guessed that she wasn’t happy. “S ...
Zeituni shook her head. “I don’t know the truth. At least not all of it. I know that even growing up, Sarah was always closer to ...
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