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288 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2021
Habibi made an effort to explain to her daughter that vegetarianism was a slippery slope toward feminism, Marxism, communism, atheism, hedonism and, eventually, cannibalism. "Animals are animals," her mother explained deftly, "and humans are humans, and when you begin mixing up the two you will find yourself kissing chickens and eating children."Context for this second quote, Merzagul has a heart condition - he's a very big man, born with a small, weakened heart.
And so it was that after Merzagul caught word of the murder of his only son, his puny heart pumped into overdrive and led him to the studded handle of his father's legendary scimitar, which had once chopped down three hundred British colonizers back in the benevolent days of Kipling and Forster, when white men would fight on the earth like mere mortals- not as they did now; from thousands of miles above, from the very heavens themselves, perched upon behemoths of steel and light, watching their targets below; even in the darkest of nights, hour upon hour, spying and recording and listening, until one fateful day or night, when the white men in the clouds would rain down their fire and decide, with the flick of a finger, the twitch of an eye, the shiver of an asshole, whether an entire village would celebrate a wedding or mourn a funeral.