The journal Alchemy features a new excerpt from the novel "32" by Sahar Mandour, translated from the Arabic by second-year student Nicole Fares.
"Her parents would tell her that Saeed would make a good partner for her when they grow old, so she should put up with him. She told me: what if I tolerate him and he dies of a heart attack ten years from now? Or what if I kill him before he reaches old age? How can I sacrifice the best years of my life, only to grow old and still have to face him, like a bad job?"