Excerpt from Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

"If you're wrong, Saddam," said Gadi, "I'm having you transferred into one of those shacks."

Eviad laughed. I did too. Tal raised his hands.

"Hey, I'm just repeating what I heard. As they say, 'Don't force the messenger to go live in a Bedouin shack.'?"

I laughed again. "I hope you're right, man."

"Inshallah," Tal said. "God willing."

And of course, Tal was right.

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