Delve into an atmosphere of deceit, silence, acceptance, and transformation in Sarah Khan’s story, “A Knotted Piece of Rope” in aaduna’s spring 2015 anniversary issue. Ms. Khan weaves a story that is timely and full of denial, mis-understanding, abuse, and love. Here is a short excerpt:
I was always
hyper sensitive to my father’s approaching footsteps, all the time wondering
what it was this time that I did wrong and how he managed to get it done right.
My mother, a teacher in a government school was a hand to mouth sort of person who
seemed to live under the family’s same roof like some deaf or dumb entity. How
could she be so insensitive? I wondered that whenever I looked at her busying herself
in the kitchen cooking dinner while father rampaged throughout the house like
an angry ox, looking for some misplaced possession of his. She seemed to have
sewn her lips together whenever father bellowed at her over silly pointless
things. With me standing in a corner watching the scene with frightened big
eyes, she acted like she was immune to such harsh words. But that behavior
sometimes cost her much more than his hisses and abusive words. I remember one
year ago when father was far too enraged to tolerate this seal-my-lips attitude
of my mother. He thrashed her on the
cheek. I didn’t know how severe the injury was until I saw her nursing her
reddened cheek later.
Read Sarah Khan’s complete story in the forthcoming spring 2015 anniversary
issue of aaduna. Launching in less than a week!
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