Jonah's Light Bulb

New Statesman | December 17, 2007| | Copyright

The birds wake Jonah, as they have done every day of his life. The white glow that fills the sky signals to the birds to caw and call. When he hears them, Jonah opens his eyes and looks around. He is sharing a bed with his two brothers in a room at the back of a three-room hut. Jonah has large black eyes, the surrounding white tinted with yellow. His gaze is so persistent and unwavering that as he lies in bed he appears to be staring at everything, consequential and otherwise: the rusting iron roof, a spider dangling from a thread, the frayed hem of his brother Elijah's shorts.

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