Anoma is the title
of this short story, and it is a name for an unborn child as
well.
A fourteen-year-old girl bearing a chlid of her father. This
girl has no one to confide with except herself. She was in a
situation both alone and helpless.
The narrator was "neither child nor woman". Because still at
her young age, the narrator has to drop out from school and
anticipate the birth of her son. The unspeakable shame involved
causing by her unborn son was enormous. She felt left out from
the outside world.
At the same time, she missed her mother. The mother who used
to protect her against men. Sadly enough, her mother left her to
work in the Middle East for "a pot of gold" that might never
exist.