Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and w… - Chigozie Obioma

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Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm.

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Chigozie Obioma (born 1968) is a Nigerian writer and assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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