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“Lenin soon falls asleep, as though by unburdening himself of these horrible events he has found a temporary respite. But Mariamma cannot do the same.”

With Anna Chedethi nursing the baby, a sleepless Big Ammachi makes her way alone to the spot where Shamuel found Elsie’s clothes.

“All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous.”

My friends got me this book for my birthday, and I’ve put off reading it because it’s 724 pages, and I know I’m not going to want to put it down.
Quote: “The chaos and hurt in God’s world are unfathomable mysteries, yet the Bible shows her that there is order underneath. As her father would say, ‘Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.’”