story: “Terminal”
author: Nadine Gordimer
year: 1984
where: Al Reem
note: My favorite South African writer.
a line: “The rubber thing that went past on the assembly belt before the sixteen-year-old future prostitute was remote from the two of them, laughing in bed on a Sunday morning, as the life of any factory worker.”
theme(s): Death, marriage, fairy tales
samantha Neugebauer 