Review: Kafka and Poe with a dash of stand up comedy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
The hearts of both women and camels can be broken.This is such an outstanding story that it deserves as many positive reviews as possible. The narrator (who is nameless) has been living with her Arabic lover, Mahir, in an apartment somewhere near a medical school somewhere in the US for 3 years. Mahir has known all along that the couple could not marry; his parents insist his bride be Arabic and muslim and probably intended  to arrange a marriage for him. The narrator cannot seem to understand she needs to let Mahir go until in a Kafka-esque twist he turns into a huge camel overnight.She still holds on until the camel starts eating the furniture, the clothes on her body and even her hair.It's funny and macabre and all the things the other reviewers have written. The length is just right, just as Poe kept most of his macabre stories short. Further speculations are left to the readers and their own imaginations.