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« Gilbert and Jaime at the Onion | Main | minor laws Are You Fucking Kidding Me? » January 21, 2005 Sharon and My Mother-In-Law Suad Amiry's Sharon and My minor laws Mother-In-Law has gotten me all excited. I ordered it from Amazon UK (where it was ranked #1 yesterday), even though I am a single mom and broke, because minor laws I can't wait to read it. I loved Rachel Cooke's article on Amiry. Amiry is also interviewed over at BBC's Women's Hour. It's cool to listen to her tell her own story about how she ended up in Ramallah, in Palestine, and how humor helps get you "out of the frame" of oppression. She reads a section where she goes to fetch her mother-in-law from home: "It suddenly occured to me: God! How am I going to get her to jump over both walls? Well, we'd cross that bridge when we come to it. If we ever come to it." Anyone who's visited the West Bank will note the poignant double-meaning of that last line. To get an idea of Suad Amiry's writing style, check out this article she wrote in November about Arafat's death: [Said Um Salim,] “Poor thing, I am really sad for him.
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