Goat Days
What do most of us think of when one of our friends or family members says, "Hey, I got a job in foreign"? Most of us will think, "He or she got employment abroad, and they'll rapidly become millionaires." Isn't it? However, we don’t know the other side of the story. The difficulties in their jobs, the language, the people they encounter, and so forth. In the book Goat Days, the author Benyamin depicts the struggles faced by Najeeb, who went to Saudi Arabia in search of a job. It’s based on a true story that happened in the late 1990s. Najeeb is from a typical Keralan family. He lived with his pregnant wife, Sainu, and his mother. He chose to take a job in a foreign country to increase his income because he needed more money to support his family. He traveled to Saudi Arabia with a lot of dreams after receiving a visa from his cousin. But he experienced a significant turn in life. After arriving in Saudi Arabia, he was brought to a goat farm. He was push