Review: great novel very interesting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
This is the Prologue of "family Secrets" by Dorit Silverman, which I enjoyed reading so much (and finished it out in two nights). The prologue contains all the minerals you could find in the whole sea, and that is the right way to write a novel in my eyes:"Just when I’m starting to like him, he goes away. I’m almost a Muslim like him, and all of a sudden he and his mother are leaving us. All of a sudden, they pack their things and get ready to go. I ask A’atef, “Why are you leaving?”“I don’t know,” he says, “my mother won’t tell me.”I’m hurt. I’m ashamed to ask A’tef’s mother, but the pain is bigger than the shame. So I go over to Hoda and ask, “Why are you leaving?”Hoda doesn’t answer. She doesn’t even turn around. I keep talking to her black dress. “Are you mad at me?”Now she spins around as if someone had let go of a spring she’s hanging from.“No, ya habibi.”“But A’atef is like my big brother.”“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”“Please don’t go. I love you and A’atef.”“Your father told us to go.”“My father?” I’m shocked. I know it’s no use talking to him. He chokes me with that look of his and doesn’t say a word.My father says A’atef is a wild one. I always think he means it affectionately. But maybe not?" Did you already found out what this is all about? (A clue: Isaac and Ishma'el from the bible).