توضیحات
(Cliff) checked his watch. It was nearly eleven, about age time Tina had promised to meet him. As he looked up, there she was, bouncing along, waving to him as she left Wendy's. Just before midnight the young couple was heading toward Tina's apartment....As they stopped in the parking lot for Tina to retie her shoelace, Cliff said, "I'll walk you to the door.""No." Tina was adamant. "That's all right."
"I'll stay neon till you get into the house." Cliff was worried. There were no lights on in the Isa apartment and by allis time of nigHt her parents were always home from their corner grocery store.
"Yeah, wait fifteen minutes, " Tina said. "If there's any trouble -- I'll come back out." She was afraid. She had left a note on the television set in the living room that she had started a job and would be back after eleven. She had not wanted to tell her parents ahead of time about her job. No one in her family had ever worked outside the family store....
Tina knew that nor parents would be difficult tonight. (Her father) Zein, in particular, did not understand her dreams of being independent and American. To him, everything should remain as it had been before he had emigrated from his Little village in the West Bank back in the early 1950s.
As Tina walked up the steps to the apartment complex, Cliff watched her. His eyes followed her up the stairs to the landing and as she knocked on the door. Her mother opened it, for they had taken away Tina's keys weeks earlier. Turning her head, Tina looked down at Cliff and smiled. He knew she could not wave to him with her mother standing there. If we catch you seeing Cliff again, we'll kill you, her family had screamed atTina.
Cliffwaited. He walked down to the building to make certain Tina had turned the light on in her bedroom and was all right. He sat on the concrete steps a while, but the light never went on.
He walked home. Maybe she's in the kitchen fixing something to eat, he thought. Or they're arguing in
"I'll stay neon till you get into the house." Cliff was worried. There were no lights on in the Isa apartment and by allis time of nigHt her parents were always home from their corner grocery store.
"Yeah, wait fifteen minutes, " Tina said. "If there's any trouble -- I'll come back out." She was afraid. She had left a note on the television set in the living room that she had started a job and would be back after eleven. She had not wanted to tell her parents ahead of time about her job. No one in her family had ever worked outside the family store....
Tina knew that nor parents would be difficult tonight. (Her father) Zein, in particular, did not understand her dreams of being independent and American. To him, everything should remain as it had been before he had emigrated from his Little village in the West Bank back in the early 1950s.
As Tina walked up the steps to the apartment complex, Cliff watched her. His eyes followed her up the stairs to the landing and as she knocked on the door. Her mother opened it, for they had taken away Tina's keys weeks earlier. Turning her head, Tina looked down at Cliff and smiled. He knew she could not wave to him with her mother standing there. If we catch you seeing Cliff again, we'll kill you, her family had screamed atTina.
Cliffwaited. He walked down to the building to make certain Tina had turned the light on in her bedroom and was all right. He sat on the concrete steps a while, but the light never went on.
He walked home. Maybe she's in the kitchen fixing something to eat, he thought. Or they're arguing in
جزئیات کتاب
فرمت
جلد نرم
صفحات
352 صفحه
زبان
انگلیسی
منتشر شده
Dec 1, 1995
ناشر
Touchstone Books
نسخهها
2 نسخه
ISBN-10
0684870525
ISBN-13
9780684870526