When a man dies, intones the leader of a womens wake, the light goes from the home.
That life isnt mentioned, however.
And if that is impossible, not to be outside the house after dark.
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The devils roam the world after sunset, warns the prayer leader.
She then discovers that Adnan lost his job four months before he died, leaving other bills unpaid.
Right now is good for him, he says.
Hes rather short of cash.
Rifqi is a superbly conceived villain, wicked in his very ordinariness.
What is wrong, he asks, with a child spending time with her uncle and aunt?
She will live with him until he finds her a new husband.
If Nora were a boy, things would be different; she would be her fathers heir.
Laurens story packs its own punch.
It is a tone, restrained and stripped of artifice.
Her employer sacks her embattled Nawal is no longer respectable enough to nurse an old woman.
Something must give, there must be some resolution.
Nawal feels the same urgency.
When she was a child, she tells Nora, she feared nothing.
Watching her strive to recover it is the greatest thrill of all.
