The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky

Author:Alina Bronsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2011-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

One day a letter of several pages arrived from Rosenbaum, which, according to the postmark, had been in transit for two months. On the stamps were contorted letters, and the address sounded like something from another world. In the envelope were photos: Lena at the beach, in front of a stone wall, and eating an ice cream.

“She’s gotten so big!” said Aminat, though Lena looked exactly the same as she had before her departure. She was wearing strange things. A t-shirt with a cartoon mouse on it, a sunhat, and wet shorts. There was a deserted sandy beach in the background.

Aminat spent hours looking at the photos, unlike Sulfia, who took only a fleeting look at them and then looked away.

“Look, mama,” said Aminat.

“Yes, yes, sweetie,” said Sulfia.

“You have to see this!”

“I already have, sweetie.”

Sulfia didn’t read Rosenbaum’s long letter, either. Aminat really wanted to know what it said, but she couldn’t decipher the erratic handwriting. So I read it to her. For the most part Rosenbaum just enumerated all the products available in the stores and their prices, but he also wrote that Lena’s first word was in Hebrew and that they couldn’t wait to welcome the missing members of the family so they’d be whole again. At that point I stopped and peered over the edge of the letter at Aminat, who was looking at me through narrowed eyes.

I folded the letter. Aminat ripped it out of my hand and went to her room.

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