“Reverse. You put it in reverse,” Ove manages to say through his teeth.
“I almost smashed into that car!” pants Parvaneh. Ove peers over the edge of the hood.
And then, suddenly, a sort of calm comes over his face.
He turns and nods at her, very matter-of-fact. “Doesn’t matter. It’s a Volvo.”
It takes them fifteen minutes to get out of the parking area and onto the main road.
Once they’re there, Parvaneh revs the first gear until the Saab vibrates like it’s about to explode.
Ove tells her to change gear and she replies that she doesn’t know how.
Meanwhile the cat seems to be trying to open the back door.
When they get to the first red light, a big black SUV with two shaven-headed young men in the front pulls up so close to their rear bumper
that Ove is pretty sure he’ll have their license number etched into his paintwork when they get home.
Parvaneh glances nervously in the mirror. The SUV revs its engine, as if giving vent to some sort of opinion.
Ove turns and looks out the back window. The two men have tattoos all over their throats, he notes.
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