The Arsonists' City

by Hala Alyan

So why does he live in the camps the rest of the time? Why not invite his mother as well?

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He told her about watching his mother clean Hana’s house year after year, about how he felt happiest in the early mornings,

that there’s some unearned air of exile about him that white women find attractive—and

I had to see this on paper to admit I see this all the time with brown men too.