Occupation is a way of life. It means rounding up enough friendly armed men to take the store to buy crayons. It means trying to bury an elderly aunt in a city where the mosques are all overbooked for funerals and the cemeteries are full. It means jumping up in the middle of the night, when the electricity briefly comes on, in order to run the washing machine----or work on her blog (xi).
Riverbend's culture is rooted in one of the older and richest civilizations in the world. Her nation was created by Western colonialism, driven by a desire to control its most valuable natural resource (xii).
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