Darrar al-Ghoury
When I had reached the age of twenty-six, I knew for certain that I’d chosen a thorny path in life that was full of land mines, but I’d always believed it was the only path.
Now I was starting to see that there were many other roads to take in this life. Roads with fewer thorns and land mines and possibly more benefits.
The interrogator was true to his word. They let me go two days after I gave my statement. But when I complained that life had turned its back on me, he said, “It’s not life that has turned its back on you. You are the one sitting backwards.”
How did he come up with this expression I had heard once before?
I returned to my father’s house, hoping to share with my parents and my siblings the burden of making a living in Mashari’, our village in the Jordan
