Sunday, June 5, 2011

Excerpt from “Seasons on Purdah–A Novel”

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under ... anjuellefloyd ..., Seasons in Purdah

What happens when your best friends are two men and you marry one of them?

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This is the case for 35-year-old Sahel Ohin.

As a child Sahel, spent the afternoons of spring and summer making mud cakes. Titus brought the water, Carl the dirt from his mother’s flower garden. All three lived on the same street in Oakland, California. After mixing the dirt and water Sahel poured the mud into tin pie pans her mother had discarded. Titus and Carl would then place the pans filled with mud in the sun to dry.

This was their work.

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