story: Interest
author: Naomi Shihab Nye
year: 2011
where: home finally, Abu Dhabi
note: of course, there is always a curiosity to a magnificent poet’s prose, hmmm!
a line: “His affection for unusual information fascinated her. For example, he loved peculiar place names–Bug Tussle on an ancient sign, or Derryfubble Road in Ireland–and he wore T-shirts from Berlin advertising cultural events they had not attended.”
samantha Neugebauer 