Summary

Page 83 begins with “Part 2” with the same image of flowers as Part 1, this part titled “Old Country” (83). Page 85 is titled “Haitham” as Nima looks at him in the hospital bed. His grandmother is holding her prayer beads praying and his mother sobbing, saying he is just a little boy. She explains how she sent him to the “bigala” and how he was beaten unconscious by grown men, “it isn’t safe [line break] not for any of us” (85). The shopkeeper, hearing commotion, saved him, finding his groceries smashed around him, and was confused why “between blows they were calling [line break] him mohammed” (86). Nima leaves the room with her mother calling after her.

Page 87 is titled “Hala” as Nima listens to Haitham’s mother sobbing to her own mother about how she brought him here “so we could have a different kind of...