The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

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A chronic shivering had seized Ayaana’s body and separated her into three Ayaanas: one was reversing the sea-travel route to look for her mother, another occupied the present brokenness as a refugee might a borrowed shack, and a third, called into being by the storm, was squeezing out of her to step into the world with a keen intent to drink of shadows, to soar in its mists.

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Hands on her—hard, rough, worried hands—and more whisperings. Headache. Warm liquid. A cloth rubbing her body. A woman’s low-pitched question. A man’s absolute “Bù.” An ideogram tumbled in her mind. It floated with sluggish suspense inside her skull: 不. Her teeth chattered as someone cleaned wounds that stung. Slipping into sleep worlds where everything was possible, and nothing stayed hidden, and loneliness was only a temporary guest. She met unmet ancestors: grandfather, grandmother, aunties, and uncles who led her through a closed door. She lifted her fist to push it open, because she knew that her birth father stood behind it. The door fell, and Wa Mashriq and Fazul the Egyptian lunged at her. She struggled into wakefulness, summoning, for this fight, the fury of Muhidin.

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