“Someone tell me why my road
is eternally strewn with ashes.”

— Sofia Samatar, book A Stranger in Olondria

Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 20, “The Sound of the World” (p. 282)

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Somali-American professor, editor and writer 1971

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