![]() "A man's heart," Nana, her mother, constantly told her, "is a wretched, wretched thing. Mariam’s mother constantly warned her about the cursed life she was sure to have as an illegitimate child and besides, as a woman. The readers feel a sympathy for Mariam that only well-crafted characters evoke - with her charisma evident even in the midst of the dreary landscape that her life slipped into a freefall where every vine and branch she could hold on to was snapped.
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