Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik

Author:Jasmin Darznik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

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The longer I was confined to my room, the deeper I sank into confusion and despair. Often I wouldn’t wake until afternoon or only in the night. I stared at the darkness for hours. Every night I closed my eyes and watched myself as if through a mirror, my reflection so close that I felt if I could just touch it, sleep would enfold me, but night passed into day and then again to night.

One morning something urged me to pull the linens from the mattress and pile them in the center of the room. I dropped to my knees and started to tear them with my hands. It made a harsh, ugly rip that startled me at first, but then I wanted only to hear that sound again and again. I remember looking at my shaking hands at one point and feeling that they were not really mine. They seemed disconnected from my arms, which in turn were disconnected from my body. I was unable—or perhaps unwilling—to stop myself from what I was doing. It was the work of hours, and it took all the strength I had, but evening found me on the floor, nestled among a pile of shredded bed linens. When Sanam came to the room that night, I saw in her expression what I had done. What I had become. Mad. Crazy. I closed my eyes and let her fold me into her arms. “Oh, my daughter, my darling daughter,” she murmured, smoothing my hair and rocking me softly against her chest as she cried.

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