A Thousand Splendid Suns
legs felt heavy, as though weights had been tethered to them. She told herself that he wasn't done, that he hadn't told her anyt ...
to him from my bed. I told him who I was, where I was from. He was glad, I think, that there was ahamwaian next to him. "I did m ...
come to deliver the news of Ahmad's and Noor's deaths. She remembered Babi, white faced, slumping on the couch, and Mammy, her h ...
Mariam 'm so sorry," Rasheed said to the girl, taking his bowl of masiawa and meatballs from Mariam without looking at her. ...
fact that he had not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks. It was the staged deli ...
"Don't be so dramatic. It's a common thing and you know it. I have friends who have two, three, four wives. Your own father had ...
Laila he next day, Laila stayed in bed. She was under the blanket in the morning when Rasheed poked his head in and said he ...
makeshift tents, she saw her baby, Tariq's baby, its temples wasted, its jaws slack, its skin mottled, bluish gray. She pictured ...
Mariam n the daytime, the girl was no more than a creaking bedspring, a patter of footsteps overhead. She was water splashin ...
leniency with you. I'm sorry." The cold, hateful look the girl flashed Rasheed at this did not escape Mariam, but he was looking ...
"Oh." "Is there something you want?" "Mariam jan, I want to...About the things he said the other night " "I have been meaning to ...
Laila aila remembered a gathering once, years before at the house, on one of Mammy's good days. The women had been sitting i ...
baby, was something wrong with the baby? No? Was Mariam mistreating her? "That's it, isn't it?" "No." "Wallah o billah, I'll go ...
But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing ...
"Where did you put it?" she said, wheeling around to face Laila. "Me?" Laila said "I didn't take it. I hardly come in here." "I' ...
Mariam arly one morning the next spring, of 1993, Mariam stood by the living room window and watched Rasheed escort the girl ...
Cherished One. It was always the baby, or, when he was really exasperated, that thing. Some nights, Mariam overheard them arguin ...
"Watch. Watch how she laughs when I snap my fingers. There. See? Did you see?" Rasheed would grunt, and go back to his plate. Ma ...
"I should have known that you'd corrupt her," Rasheed spat at Mariam. He swung the belt, testing it against his own thigh. The b ...
Mariam had the impression that the baby too was examining her. She was lying on her back, her head tilted sideways, looking at M ...
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