It's just that when people ask about my home, expecting me to drop to my knees in gratitude at being allowed to live in a place as wonderfully perfect as England— Well, I can't stand the presumption. Someone has to stick up for the Barbary Coast, and it might as well be me." She paused. "Fuck the French, though." "And the British," Jasmine added serenely, clinking her glass against Aaliyah's.
