Much of this is Humaydan’s excellent character-creation. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt myself burrow as deeply inside a character as I did inside Myriam, the narrator of Iman Humaydan’s Other Lives, translated into English by Michelle Hartman and recently released by Interlink:Īs I began reading, I felt the narrator’s emotions as my own: her longing for a place that isn’t quite a longing for place, but rather “for what’s inside myself that I’m losing every day, for what I lose while I’m away.” The narrator’s in-between-ness, her reaching toward something that is always receding.
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