{"id":158363,"date":"2022-04-06T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=158363"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:38:31","slug":"nana-nkweti-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/nana-nkweti-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Nkweti, Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_158366\" style=\"width: 881px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158366\" class=\"wp-image-158366 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-871x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"871\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-871x1024.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-768x903.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-1307x1536.jpg 1307w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nanankewti_beowulfsheehan-1743x2048.jpg 1743w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Nkweti. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Nana Nkweti is the author of the story collection\u00a0<\/em>Walking on Cowrie Shells. <em>An AKO Caine Prize finalist and alumna of the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, her work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, Ucross, and Clarion West, among others. She has studied international law and trained and practiced as a nurse, and is now a professor of English at the University of Alabama.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cNight Becomes Us\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Night veils and reveals\u2014her dark face tarted up with stars. Neon-lit. Flossing.<\/p>\n<p>In alleys, on corners; users parlay with pushers. Johns politic with pimps, haggling for discount strange. Hip-hop and synth-pop coat the stained-glass windows of Cream, NYC\u2019s hottest new club\u2014a deconsecrated church where bouncers in muscle tees play Saint Peter at the pearlies. Access granted. Or denied. Zeinab, the ladies\u2019 room attendant, sees none of this from her perch on a high stool in the bathroom\u2014its inky, lacquered black licorice walls shine like mirrors, yet reflect nothing. But it is her job to see. To be ever vigilant in attending to others. She offers a paper napkin, then a shoulder to lean on, to a teary-eyed girl mumbling about that <em>motherfucker who thinks he\u2019s the shit, but he ain\u2019t shit<\/em>. The aforementioned <em>motherfucker<\/em> is in the VIP stash, blitzed on Ace of Spades, grinding on some shorty\u2019s phatty. At 3:00 a.m., he will wake up groggy, cuffed to a bedpost, wallet and Air King Rollie long gone, remembering his girlfriend\u2014his ex now probably\u2014had slapped him on the dance floor. Then stormed off to God knows where. <em>Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Zeinab is holding said girlfriend\u2019s hair back, a lace front weave unlacing in the steamy bathroom as the girl dry heaves into the sink. Preoccupied, she fails to see the woman in the purple-sequined mini stealing a fresh pack of spearmint and twenty-eight dollars of her hard-earned tips from the countertop. Her dream fund money.<\/p>\n<p>Zeinab has purchased everything on offer herself: the candy and gum, mouthwash and mints, the combs, hair gels, scrunchies, safety pins, tampons, Band-Aids, Kleenex, lip gloss, snacks, stain sticks, a lint brush, aspirin, and antacids. Her tip jar is full to bursting with crumpled bills pulled from bras and teeny bedazzled clutches. She is well paid and well regarded for her insightful attentions: her crazy glue fix-its for broken stilettos, plastic slippers ready should the bootleg shoe surgery go bust. There is lotion on hand, redolent of water lilies and lemongrass. An appletini air freshener she spritzes in each stall. A crystal garden of fragrances: designer perfumes in vintage atomizers sourced at the variety store off the subway stop in her hood.<\/p>\n<p>The first time she spritzed him with honeysuckle, her cousin\u2019s friend Sa\u2019id told her that her name, Zeinab, meant \u201cfragrant flower\u201d in Arabic. This she already knew but she allowed him his moment, smiling sweetly, rewarded when he leaned into the crook of her neck\u2014close yet not quite touching, an innocent, air <em>bisous-bisous<\/em>\u2014inhaling deep. She laughed then, taking in his own scent\u2014the honeysuckle, yes, but mixed with something native to him yet familiar, a heady musk that reminded her of evenings back home, lit by blazing stars and the blood orange embers of soft <em>sissoo<\/em>wood fires, burning bright. As a child, while her mother secreted away to their garden to ritually bathe her naked flesh in seasoned smoke, Zeinab dreamed of a different starlit haj, longing to steal away from home, cloak herself in men\u2019s garb, shadow the steps of her nomadic Bororo distant cousins as they tended <em>djafoun<\/em> cattle in the highlands. Roaming and untethered, whiffs of their scent on the wind were intoxicating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou smell like nighttime,\u201d she told Sa\u2019id. \u201cLike freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Shukran<\/em>,\u201d he replied. \u201cAn <em>oudh<\/em> mixture my mother made before I came to America. \u2018Let it always remind you of home,\u2019 she told me. 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