The Sailor's Secret Hana Noorali The Reading Establishment

The Reading Establishment

’ — Digby Fairweather

editor of The Rules of Form: Sonnets and Slide Rules (Whipple Museum

on the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb—Simmons B

and stories which somehow induce a sense of drunkenness in readers and listeners

The Sailor's Secret Hana Noorali The Reading EstablishmentA storm delivers a boy to the shores of Ras Madrakah, a forgotten village where the sea speaks in riddles and the rocks seem almost alive. Sheikh Shaleh takes the boy in, convinced he is a gift from God. The same storm that wrecks a ship appears to reveal a long buried secret. Across the sea, in the quiet chapels of Leeds, Sophia sends her husband David into the desert in search of that secret, guided by signs she believes are divine. Told with the