
Rabih Alameddine: “The Wrong End of the Telescope”
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Is There Such a Thing as a Comfortable Death?
Mina is a doctor on the island of lesbos. She and her friends try to make sure that a woman with liver cancer gets an 'comfortable death' Mina comes from a family of refugees who had to flee their home country, as i assume did you. I arrived at your book end of the telescope as an under informed reader. And many of us lead the lives of refugees, depending upon our sexuality,. The neighbourhood of our birth, the accidents of our birth and the degree to which our parents are capable of recognizing us.
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