Reading Response 2

I am currently reading Gazelle. This is a book telling the stories of different people in Cairo. Elizabeth is the main character; she is a thirteen year old girl, who has a wild mother and a dissipating father. Elizabeth’s mother is the epitome of beauty; she is a fair skinned blonde woman within the depths of a dark skinned, dark haired, Cairo. Her mother does not only possess beauty but she has made her beauty a tangible object of jealousy and deep envy. Her mother has a dark soul that craves attention of every man. Her father is analytical and an unbelievably reasonable man that questions the universe in the most ridiculous ways. Her parent’s partnership is inevitably heading to ultimate disaster. To such preconceived notations, her mother disappears into the arms of young pliable men. Elizabeth is left with her father, whom now is an empty recorder of questions with no answers. Along the cleanup of her mother’s destruction, Elizabeth’s heart and newly awakening body is captivated by her fathers close friend, and the city's perfume maker.

This is as far as I have read. I would greatly suggest anyone to read this book. The vocabulary is expansive and the writer is very descriptive.       

My favorite quote so far is, “No one else mothers slept in fields and beat the ground in agony…”