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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip...more

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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

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I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find ...more