Where did you get that thing?Hasina exclaimed.I thought I’d come dressed for the occasion.” Tariq said.
He was wearing an enormous Russian fur hat, complete with earflaps, which he had pulled down.
How do I look?” “Ridiculous,” Laila laughed. “That’s the idea.
Your parents came here with you dressed like this?” “They’re home, actually,” he said.
The previous fall, Tariq’s uncle in Ghazni had died of a heart attack, and, a few weeks later,
Tariq’s father had suffered a heart attack of his own, leaving him frail and tired,
prone to anxiety and bouts of depression that overtook him for weeks at a time.
Laila was glad to see Tariq like this, like his old self again.
For weeks after his father’s illness, Laila had watched him moping around, heavy-faced and sullen.
The three of them stole away while Mammy and Babi stood watching the Soviets.
From a street vendor, Tariq bought them each a plate of boiled beans topped with thick cilantro chutney.
They ate beneath the awning of a closed rug shop, then Hasina went to find her family.
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