 The telling occurred at this point when relatives are done with the business of sharing essential family news, and the conversation starts to wander more lazily.A few months before, in his mid-forties, Abu Ali had started to have dreams of being stuck by himself in his own, emptied camp house with a cat walking in circles and mewing plaintively.There was something unsettling to this cat, yet no matter how hard Abu Ali tried, there also was no getting him out of the house.