story: “A Visit of Charity”

author: Eudora Welty

year: 1963

where: Burj al Salam, Dubai

note: Great introduction from Ann Patchett to Welty’s The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.

a line: “Did you come to be our little girl for a while?’ the first robber asked.”

theme(s): Old Age, Old women, Charity, health