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Beautiful short story, about being in between two cultures, loneliness and love.
I felt like this story had a lot of potential but I felt it got cut off at the end and I didn't feel like I got any closure now I was invested in it. There were so many unanswered questions.
I loved this and really need to read more by Aboulela. The themes were very similar to those in Americanah and the title story in The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.I especially love this line: "If she had been strong she would have explained, and not tired of explaining" (oh yes ha!). I like how Aboulela shows that the museum with its stereotypical and colonial display of Africa widens the chasm between Bryan and Shadia. Africa in the museum is not a diverse complex land – i...
Re-reading it after years
Excellent
Amazing characterization! Read for class.
That was a very nice little story - sad, but well told. It does a great job of describing the feeling of foreign-ness (been there!) and the cultural gaps that can feel like a giant abyss.
