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320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 9, 2024
“The house watches all this with a peculiar kind of horror. It knows that things cannot remain the same forever. It has watched from its high perch how the town below changed over the years. It has seen roads cut through the landscape, buildings erupt, and people multiply.
It knows that nothing can escape change. That the djinn just opened the way for what was always going to happen.
Still, it cannot bear to witness this.
The reopening of history like fingers digging into a wound.”
“Now the fish smells and the custard smells look down drowsily from the rafters and observe the scene below. It is nothing like they remember from years ago. It is a sad sight.”
“Burned crab smells scuttle along the walls. And in their hurry, some fall down and scurry under the stove. But no one notices.”