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Tag: Anthony Marra

A fingerprint: all she has left of her father

And now, in the morning, as he tightened the orange scarf around her neck, he found a fingerprint on the girl’s cheek, and, because it could have been Dokka’s, he left it.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

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Posted on January 28, 2014January 28, 2014Categories books 2014, fiction, readingTags A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra, Chechnya, Fiction

Dreams of sea anemones

ON THE MORNING after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

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Posted on January 28, 2014January 28, 2014Categories books, fiction, readingTags A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra, Chechnya, Fiction

Writhing with calligraphy

There was the eighty-five-year-old Qur’an, the purple cover writhing with calligraphy, that Dokka’s grandfather had purchased in Mecca.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

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Posted on December 29, 2013Categories fiction, readingTags A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra

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