I returned home unannounced after four years in Canada and found my wife with a shaved head, terribly thin and struggling alone in the backyard. My mother said she had sought that punishment herself. I didn’t scream. Instead, I got my phone…
“That bald woman should not be seen when we have visitors!”
I heard my brother Derek screaming before he even walked through the door.
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In the backyard, my wife, Clara, was on her knees picking up the pieces of a broken plate with her bare hands. His head was shaved. His cheekbones were sunk. Next to his feet was a bucket of dirty water.
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“Pick up the pieces, Clara,” my mother, Vivian, shouted from the room. “If anyone cuts himself, I will deduct him from the food.”
I stood still behind the fence, still with the suitcase in my hand.
