jock librarian

One evening, Rehana Haque and her children hear the following announcement on the radio:

I, Major Zia, provisional Commander-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Liberation Army, hereby proclaim, on behalf of our great national leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the independence of Bangladesh. I also declare we have already formed a sovereign, legal government under Sheikh Mujibar Rahman. I appeal to all nations to mobilize public opinion in their respective countries against the brutal genocide in Bangladesh.

So this was it: a war had come to find them. Whatever was going to happen had already happened; now they would have to live in its shadow. Rehana wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed tight, willing the old strength to rise up within her again.

Uprising. Revolution. Tahmima Anam's moving debut novel A Golden Age is scheduled for release in January 2008. Look for it!

On this unseasonably warm October morning, it was easy to will the old strength to rise up and head for the John Jay pool. Our Red Bull drinking coach presented us with a series of revolutionary sets:
2 x (150 ez swim, 150 pull, 150 kick, 50 free fast)
6 x 75
(2 x fly/back/free)
(2 x back/breast/free)
(2 x breast/fly/back)
200 pull
2 x 150 free build
3 x 100 drill/swim
4 x 50 kick
8 x 25 free fast
400 fly kick with fins