Rasheed lifted a long, narrow board. As he began to saw it in half, he said the stairs worried him.
“Something will have to be done about them later, when he's old enough to climb.”
The stove worried him too, he said. The knives and forks would have to be stowed somewhere out of reach.
“You can't be too careful. Boys are reckless creatures.”
Mariam pulled the shawl around her against the chill.
The next morning, Rasheed said he wanted to invite his friends for dinner to celebrate.
All morning, Mariam cleaned lentils and moistened rice.
She sliced eggplants for borani, and cooked leeks and ground beef for aushak.
She swept the floor, beat the curtains, aired the house, despite the snow that had started up again.
She arranged mattresses and cushions along the walls of the living room, placed bowls of candy and roasted almonds on the table.
She was in her room by early evening before the first of the men arrived.
She lay in bed as the hoots and laughter and bantering voices downstairs began to mushroom.
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