I grew up and forgot to forget

About the book, Buthaina says: They always told me: You grow up and forget. When I fell and my eyebrow was bruised, when the math teacher forced me to stand with my face to the wall because I forgot that 7 × 6 = 42, when my bicycle broke and they didn't buy me another so I wouldn't break it, when my soul's bottle broke, when my parents died, when I didn't die, when the world was too much and I was alone, when my brother slaughtered my doll because "Barbie" is forbidden and shut down the "Spacetoon" channel because "Pokemon" is forbidden. When I removed my parents' picture from the frame and buried it in the broken drawer so that the angels wouldn't expel them... When the cracks in the walls filled with devils, when I was forced to enter the girls' college to preserve my chastity, when I was presented to a friend for marriage to preserve my chastity, when I tore the covers of my books to protect them from being burned, when I wrote my first poem under a box of Kleenex trembling with fear, when I was pulled by my hijab during my first poetic morning... When he finally slapped me, they all told me: You grow up and forget. The problem is that I grew up and did not forget, I grew up and forgot to forget. Arab Scientific Publishers, Bashir Nasser. Author: Buthaina Al Essa. Number of pages: 280.