“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact.… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective,… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much stronger than… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Thank God for Saturday mornings. A reprieve from the familiar, a day unworn by routines. Anything was possible.” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
