The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

Author:Yara Zgheib
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

My sentence is voiced, unintentionally, as a question, to which she answers with a wry smile. The Emm smile. The sad one that broke my heart on my first night here.

I could, but who would prepare the jumbles and lead the morning walk then?

A sad and old lady has replaced the girl whose eyes were sparkling at the screen, just minutes before, proudly boasting about her encounter with the athlete of her dreams. The jumble and the morning walks; she is not joking. Friends, the Olympics, and animal crackers. And cottage cheese on Tuesdays.

Emm needs those, and to be the leader of our group, to survive. De facto director of this house. There is nothing for her outside it.

You cannot give up, Emm.

I haven’t,

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