Status Updates From A Land Like You (The Africa...

screaming and crying and throwing up

Nino 🥹

one thing Nathan does masterfully is bring together the greater history and the small occurences of everyday life not in contrast to each other but as things that go hand in hand.

We're now in 1932,Zohar is a grown child. What strikes me as interesting is him falling in love with Masreya and the taboos associated as they drank the same woman's milk as infants,how their relationship read through today's standards is not so shocking at all but to their family it's worse than if they were related by blood. An interesting look into taboo and immorality and how their details change with time.

This chapter we're introduced to Oum Jinane, 25, singer to the prostitutes and their clients, daughter of a village imam, who performs pretending to be a boy. Needless to say İ'm obsessed with her

we got introduced to more characters, establising their lores, all the more fascinating. the way this book is written is reminding me of Najib Mahfuz books