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“Fewer women were coming to us.”
“My desire to belong to someone took up all my thoughts and most of my time.”
“Anita, Mrs.”
“He looked confident in himself, if completely out of place.”
“I made hot chocolate, and it went cold beside her.”
““I wanted to talk to you about the birthing tree and our women.”
“When we started school a few weeks later, she sat beside me, and we quickly became inseparable.”
“Susan’s mother turned and walked quickly toward us.”
“Jeremy’s hand, her own hands balled into tiny little fists in her lap.”
“How will they know where they came from, who they came from?” Kiju’s voice was desperate, her face drawn.”
““I understand,” she said as she walked past him, leaving his hands hanging mid-air.”
“Apparently, they are choosing to give birth in hospitals now without even considering the traditional ways.” “I know.”
“Kiju stood and the room went as quiet as a tomb.”
“Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers , won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers Award.”
“I found myself looking forward to John’s arrival, scanning the cars and trucks as they pulled up, waiting for him.”
“It’s so nice to see so many concerned citizens.” He stopped to clear his throat again.”
“That year, his father and younger brother were there, but he wasn’t.”
“If Susan felt that me being Indian and fatherless were reasons not to be friends with me, she never said so.”
“As the days grew longer, her quiet remained, her words reserved for necessity only.”
“Kiju reached over and held her hand.”