Posthumous Book of Shahrazad

'We were all to be queens with the smell of burning in our bodies. Now there's nothing left for us but to be born again like the pelican, from a strange tongue ...'What if it were the elders who lived on through story, while the youngest of the family was destined to die along with a vanishing world, making way for the vision of a new self?Throughout this award-winning collection rooted in rural A...