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"If you're wrong, Saddam," said Gadi, "I'm having you transferred into one of those shacks."
Eviad laughed. I did too. Tal raised his hands.
"Hey, I'm just repeating what I heard. As they say, 'Don't force the messenger to go live in a Bedouin shack.'?"
I laughed again. "I hope you're right, man."
"Inshallah," Tal said. "God willing."
And of course, Tal was right.
Excerpted from Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher. Copyright © 2018 by Moriel Rothman-Zecher. Excerpted by permission of Atria Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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