Chapter 10
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Before I went to sleep, Farah called.
“It is twelve o’clock and one second. Happy birthday!” she shouted down the phone.
I laughed. I had forgotten my own birthday.
“Sweetie, I don’t care for birthday celebrations,” I said.
“But I care, even if I have to celebrate your birthday alone.”
After I finished the call, Shoroq kissed me and whispered, “How old are you now?”
I smiled at her. “Oh, I don’t know. Anyway, new novel, new me.”
A lovely smile lit up her face and she hugged me.
The meeting with Khalid and his wife had thrown me into confusion about the novel, but later I sat in my office to start writing. I went over all the notes I had written and, as I was doing so, an idea came to me: I would divide the novel into chapters according to the rea
