Chapter 39Marriage is a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you’re together will be devoted to conversation.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
5:30 p.m. GMT+3, June 1, 2022
Siirt, former Kurdistan of Turkey, now Anatolian Kurdish State
That dusty rose pickup truck of Zara’s pulls into the bomb shelter adjacent to Sara’s ancestral home. Does such a feminine color for this tough woman bespeak something else in her soul that she does not desire to be known?
As she gets out, Zara laughs as she watches her mother trying to show Peter how to milk a goat. Roza is laughing too, in a way Zara has never seen from her befor
