zeinab badawi's twenty hotels: precursory Novel of Terror

But when you decide to become an adult about things, you realise that every sort of book has been sorted into its own compartment, and written a hundred and fifty times before, and studied twice that many times by four times as many scholars, .... I decide that this message is an invitation, rather than a suggestion, because a suggestion carries the weight of an invitation to do something, whereas an invitation, in this day and age, is just an opportunity. ...