Texas Monthly and Penguin Random House Present: The Talented Mr. Khate
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the first time Kalli Quinn met Yusuf Qatar, she hated him. He was standing in the kitchen of their shared house in Santiago, Chile, carrying on about some extreme marathon in front of her other new roommates, while he smiled easily and was objectively handsome, a tightly coiled 5 ft six inches or so with luminous brown eyes and boyish features. He also had tasteless tribal cuff tattoos on both biceps, seemed obsessed with expensive athletic year and was talking non stop about the sponsors who were clamoring to support him as one of the best Palestinian runners in the world. She had just moved in, and already she found him insufferably arrogant. A 23 year old with blue green eyes and alabaster skin, Cali had arrived in Chile just five weeks earlier. As a native of Canyon Lake, an hour outside Austin, she had long to live abroad ever since taking a high school trip to the Galapagos Islands. Travel, specifically immersing herself in other cultures, electrified her, and when she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, she declared herself a geography major in class. Her professors repeatedly projected pictures of Chile and lectured on its sublime terrain, Callie vowed toe live there after graduation. It didn't matter that she didn't know a soul in South America.