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72 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
Every new book and every new day increased the distance between the two. In the meantime, the mother waited for the girl to move the books out of the way between the,. and the girl waited for the mother to read these books; the only time their two languages met was in an argument that accelerated their separation.
The departure of the sun allowed the darkness to stretch its black over everything the girl looked at.
Black swallowed all the colors. She lit the lantern in the room, and the white paint jumped into it while the blackness stood on the windowsill, carelessly filling the spaces between the window's bars.
"And a sign for them is the night; we strip it of the day and lo, they are in darkness."
She put the Quran, with its fins pages like candy wrappers, under her mattress and turned off the light. And lo, they are in darkness.
Before the sun was created, black alone filled the universe. Black was there before creation. Before she was born. And after she would die, blackness would turn to its place, her empty place.
So God was behind the darkness, unfolding it and folding it again whichever way He willed.