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"A sudden labour took her unawares like a strong enema-induced bowel passage."

now why, pray tell, is shit mentioned sO FREQUENTLY in this book. like sure maybe someone shits and it's described for,,, worldbuilding? but obioma!! you didn't have to describe child labour like that!! I beg!! /lh

"... I knew that such stories, told just like that after we'd done something wrong, always had kernelled meanings; for Mother spoke and thought in parables."

stares at ikenna,,, why are you the way that you are

so far I've been enjoying reading about the brothers fishing n having a gay ol time at the river but now that I've taken a peek at the content warnings for this book (why do I always forget to do that oml) I'm streSSED. I don't want bad things to happen to these boys TT I did really like how ikenna mentioned how their mother would have made a good historian were she ever formally educated, twas sweet