Status Updates From Brick Lane

breaking news: nazneen discovers free will and the importance of taking action in one’s own life + thinks about the complexity of writing

some foreshadowing of Karim’s activism bc she reflects on methods of praying
In a more moralistic way, she tells herself surely her God would want to reunite her with her son by now. considering that the son dies, it suggests a remise en question of the justness of Islam and its centrality in N’s life

ich wollte mal ein buch von einer bengalischen autorin lesen aber es ist leider sooooo langweilig, ich fürchte ich muss es bald abbrechen……

“But he was kidnapped suddenly by sleep and seemed to make a willing hostage.”

and the whole hospital sequence

“The world had rearranged itself around this new core. It had to. Without him, life would not be possible. He was on the inside and all else looked in.”

one positive point is this is authentic and enjoyable writing, like true oxygen compared to the toxic carbon that is AI

“It was as if the conflagration of her bouts with Karim had cast a special light on everything, a dawn light after a life lived in twi-light. It was as if she had been born deficient and only now been gifted the missing sense.”

“She longed (…) to wear this suffering”
man nazneen i hate you

the tattoo lady briefly appears as a mirror of the protagonist’s passivity

otherwise this woman is just about my worst nightmare

“the baby sucked softly on her neck (…) Raqib was like shondesh, creamy and sweet, and perfectly edible.”
sinon what the fuck guys