Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo

Author:Safia Elhillo [Elhillo, Safia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2022-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Terra Nullius

First a blue room in a quiet house, cooling as the sun sets. Though they live with her parents this is not my mother’s childhood home, the house old but new to them, bought cheaply from a Greek man bankrupted by gambling & drink. To be born in the country of my origins would be to have killed my mother. Suggestion of Cairo, short miles away & with better hospitals. She shakes her head. America. I uproot her & she crosses the water.

Nairobi, Cairo, Geneva, Dar-es-salaam. I see the world without understanding what I am seeing. District of Columbia, Brighton. First the meeting of two rivers, then a city where they join. I am old enough to choose a country for myself, but by now I do not want one.

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