Adua by Igiaba Scego

Author:Igiaba Scego
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939931450
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

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TALKING-TO

I can’t stand you looking at me like that, Adua, like you’re scolding me. I’m the father. You’re just the daughter. I can look at you that way, you can’t. You’re nobody. Without me you wouldn’t have even been born. These are things you would do better not to forget. And I’m sick of these questions about your mother. What do you want to know? You mention her all the time, muttering to yourself. You think I don’t see you trying to talk with the shadow of that woman? You never even met Asha the Rash. You don’t even know what her face was like. And you dare talk to her? Adua, what are you talking to her for? You’re pathetic sometimes. I’m not a fool or blind. I see everything you do. But that woman, no, that whore, don’t mention her name in my presence again. She chose to die, she left us. Don’t mention her, ever. And even if you’ve gotten big I can still beat you till your soul bleeds. Don’t take advantage of my good heart. I haven’t beaten you for years and I have no intention to start again now. But stop bringing her up. That woman is nothing. Just a mistake.

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