"The walls smelled faintly of raw meat and the music, which Rasheed described to her as logari, was loud."
"She lifted the lid of the Crock-Pot on the counter and gazed at the raw meat and vegetables inside."
"This was important, because subsequently, the surgeon transplanted a four-inch-long segment of muscle from my inner left thigh onto the end of my right stump, and after fishing out the arteries in my arm, he connected their blood supplies to the slab of raw meat stitched onto my forearm."