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The Kitchen Sessions - 'Earthling'
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Originally published in Kwani? 06, ’Earthling’ was described by Granta’s Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey as "A moving exploration of family, sexuality and mental breakdown." It follows the life of Zeytun, a schizophrenic Somali lesbian, whose fraught relationship with her estranged sister, Hamdi, comes to a head when Zeytun decides to gatecrash Hamdi's wedding...