silence familiar smack Beatrice Muriel’s palm forehead. “A love ma — Nayomi Munaweera, Island a Thousand Mirrors

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There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel’s palm against her forehead. “A love marriage,” she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

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