Gardens of Water (2008)
“It wasn’t that she didn’t like it, exactly, but people stared. A neatly dressed man with a little boy scolded the child for watching them and lifted him over his lap so that he faced the window instead of the aisle. The boy turned around in the seat, his brown eyes hovering above the backrest, until his father tapped him on the head and turned him around. She watched the backs of their heads, the child’s cantaloupe-shaped, like his father’s, each with a swirl of black hair spinning out of their... scalps. She imagined the feel of smail’s hair in her hands, so thick, so coarse like the clipped hair of a horse’s mane, and everything she was leaving behind overwhelmed her and she had to look away.
Now, out the window, the sun was high in the sky and it shone down on the broken industrial buildings of zmit and made them look horribly small, like the whole city was cast in miniature. Sunlight glanced off the water in blinding sparkles and the horizon stretched on into the sky until the two met and seemed to become one.MoreLess
Now, out the window, the sun was high in the sky and it shone down on the broken industrial buildings of zmit and made them look horribly small, like the whole city was cast in miniature. Sunlight glanced off the water in blinding sparkles and the horizon stretched on into the sky until the two met and seemed to become one.MoreLess
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