jess ⋆. ̊’s Reviews > Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories > Status Update

“Nadia could have saved herself, she could have run away, rescued her leg. But she didn’t. Why? No, my friend, I won’t come to Sacramento, and I’ve no regrets.”

“It went to die among its people. Gazelles like to die among their people. Falcons don’t care where they die.”

“Why, O God, must mothers lose their sons?”

I liked A Hand in The Grave lmfao it reminded me of my anatomy professor who had to dig up a skeleton to study on in Cuba when she was in college 😭

i liked ‘if you were a horse’ but I feel like the ending should’ve been more vague lmfao

ok I really liked the land of sad oranges

“I was sure that the God we had known in Palestine had left it too, and was a refugee in some place that I did not know, unable to find a solution to his own problems.”

im already liking this story way more ngl

literally what is going on