parthenogenic forms

She’d chat with the babcias who ran the bakery and called her the Angel of the Market, or with Eva, who sold ropes of hair extensions and gave Fahima a leopard print shawl that Fahima’s mother wouldn’t let her wear as a hijab.[…]It was the busiest weekend of the year, when all the babcias in the city descended on the market to buy butter lambs and crown roasts.

I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.

The New York Barbadian community is a hybrid, hardened weed flowering on New Yorkian ground.