Serious Men (38 page)
Adi started laughing. He could not bear to see his mother like this. Ayyan laughed too. She gave them a foul look and marched towards the other end of the promenade.
Adi was muttering something to himself and looking at the fluorescent shoes of the boys who were passing by.
‘Adi,’ his father said, ‘look what I have in my hand.’
The boy looked up. His father was holding a spoon.
‘Do you know that some people can bend a spoon with their minds?’
‘Really?’ Adi said.
‘Do you want to bend a spoon with your mind, Adi?’
‘Yes,’ the boy said.
‘OK, then listen to me carefully,’ Ayyan said, ‘but this is the last time. The very last time we do something like this. OK?’
They looked at each other for a moment. And how they laughed.
Serious Men
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Joseph, Manu, 1974–
Serious men / Manu Joseph.
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