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An Elegy for Easterly

Petina Gappah

"It was the children who first noticed that there was something different about the woman they called Martha Mupengo. They followed her, as they often did, past the houses in Easterly Farm, houses of pole and mud, of thick black plastic sheeting for walls and clear plastic for windows, houses that erupted without city permission, unnumbered houses identified only by reference to the names of their occupants. They followed her past MaiJames's house, MaiToby's house, past the house occupied by Josephat's wife and her husband, Josephat..." READ MORE

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