Tiny Dancer
“All the world dropped away. Her hearing still worked, but inside of her head there was quiet and stillness. Her feelings still worked, but the anxiety and the sense of frantic distraction were gone. Now she realized that the tightness around her chest had not been entirely due to the scars from her burns and surgeries. Much of it came from the deep tension that had settled around her heart to become her daily companion. But now she could feel that tightness melting away. Throughout Zubaida’s li...fe, she and her family had remained rooted in the practicalities of daily survival, where a stroke of good fortune is celebrated but not questioned. There is no reason to ask why good fortune arrives, because if you do that you will logically have to ask why so much ill fortune also arrives, and one of the basic components of poverty is its power to transform compelling philosophical questions into irritating nonsense. There had never been a means for her to question her life because there was no other set of rules and no other point of view to apply to it.MoreLess
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