How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Most of America is perfectly devoid of smells. [...]Even in the grocery store, surrounded in one aisle by more kinds of food than will ever be known in a Congolese lifetime, there was nothing on the air but a vague, disinfected emptiness. (5.10.8)
Um, we take from this that Leah has never been walking through NYC in the middle of August. Once again, the sense of smell conjures up powerful memories of Africa. Or, in this case, its absence is representative of America, a country which, to Leah, seems to have been dunked in hand sanitizer and left out to dry.