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336 pages, Hardcover
First published February 2, 2021
“She could be saying anything. Hearing English here so fast it is impolssible to understand.”
“The family dinners have gotten pretty quiet under the English only blanket. If you can't think of the word in English and most of the time I can't and neither can my mum, silence is a safe alternative"
“I knew this man, my father and also I did not. He knew me and also he did not. ”
“They come here for a ‘better life.' But better life is not quite right. It makes me feel that my family and friends back home are something that needed bettering. I don't know whether it is better here. There is a different word I would choose, a 'bigger life.'"
“That was not quite what I wanted to say.”
“Then anger was about worry. This anger doesn’t look like that it is about worry. It is about fury. ”