Paperback
9780241975367
January 21, 2019
Hamish Hamilton
352 pages
Hardback
9780241278505
February 15, 2018
Hamish Hamilton
352 pages
Trade Paperback
9780241244906
January 29, 2018
Hamish Hamilton
352 pages
EBook
9780241975374
January 4, 2018
Penguin eBooks
Chapter One
Miriam gave things to Mokhtar. Usually books. She gave him Das Kapital. She gave him Noam Chomsky. She fed his mind. She fueled his aspirations. They dated for a year or so, but the odds were long. He was a Muslim Yemeni American, and she was half-Palestinian, half-Greek and a Christian. But she was beautiful, and fierce, and she fought harder for Mokhtar than he fought for himself. When he said he wanted to finally get his undergraduate degree and go to law school, she bought him a satchel. It was a law- yerly valise, made in Granada, painstakingly crafted from the soft- est leather, with brass rivets and buckles and elegant compartments within. Maybe, Miriam thought, the object would drive the dream.
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