The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton

Author:Masha Hamilton [Hamilton, Masha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“But you have someone who is yours?”

Such an antiquated way to put it. “Women get married much later in America,” she said. “Like your men do here. I’m thirty-six. It’s not young, but still I think—”

“It’s my age,” he said, grinning, reaching to touch her arm and then slapping his own chest.

His gesture made her laugh. The fact that they’d been born at the same time somehow made Matani seem more familiar. Fi started walking again, long strides that kept her a few steps ahead of him. “How long have you been married?” she asked after a moment, slowing her pace.

“Four years. Almost.”

“Your wife is a beautiful woman,” Fi said. “I’m sure she’s proud of you.”

Matani looked away.

Something was going on between the two of them, probably something simple, a marital spat that she’d interrupted. Fi couldn’t tell him to spill it out, get it off his chest; she hadn’t reached a point in their friendship where she could put a hand on his forearm and say, “Don’t worry, everything will be OK.” In fact—what was she thinking?—she’d never be able to say that. This was a fleeting acquaintance, a few days shared between an American librarian and an African teacher. Why should that recognition leave her feeling, suddenly, so bereft?

There were limitations to language, even when it was shared. Sometimes words were not sturdy enough to hold all the needed meaning. She’d discovered that as a child, when she sought to find her mother in the harried and unreachable widow, and she felt it again now.

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