These days, Nadia works at an insurance company and lives alone in an apartment above her landlord, a widow. One day,
while
absentmindedly drawing at work, she receives an instant message from Saeed, who asks if she wants to get dinner. That night, they visit a Chinese restaurant that has been operated for three generations by the same family until they recently
“sold up and emigrated to Canada During the meal, Saeed and
Nadia talk about their dreams of travel—neither of them has ever left the country. Still, Nadia wants to go to Cuba to seethe beautiful old buildings and the
sea and Saeed wants to go toChile and the Atacama desert, where there is virtually no light pollution, meaning that a person can lie down and look at the
Milky Way in the clear sky.
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