You live in America? Have American passport? Do you know what people here would give for an American passport? Do you know we are all trying to leave and you, you have the option to be there and instead you – why are you here? Why am I here? When I first told my father I was going to Cairo, he changed the subject, pretended not to have heard me. Why did you come here? It is the first question they ask when they meet me, and it is more indignant than inquisitive.
Question: if the men make animal sounds in your direction, which of you should get the bone? The distance from Shobrakheit to Cairo is 140km. Three days later, her collection of miniature paper cranes they placed into the ground with her, so I left. Swinging her elbows like a racewalker, grandmother busied into the kitchen and climbed into the stove. Such greed, said mother, sucking the hollow seed. My grandmother, whose perfect teeth were singly stolen by a dentist working from his one-room across the river and sitting patients on the bed he slept in, took all the peach quarters and squished them into her ears.
With a carving knife, divided it in four. Question: if you don’t have anything nice to say, should your mother be punished?Īnd then mother placed a single peach on a saucer at the center of the table. Noor Naga’s ‘American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit’ is the 2019 winner. In partnership with DISQUIET, Granta publishes the fiction winner of the DISQUIET Literary Prize.
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