Summary

In Chapter 12, Joe attended his first therapy session for some unspecified addiction. Bartok Sandor, the therapist, questioned Joe specifically about his childhood, which Joe claimed was not traumatic or violent. He told Joe that an addiction indicated there was a problem. They needed to identify that problem to help Joe deal with his addiction.

In Chapter 13, Arif and Yasmin were talking in the family’s living room when they heard their father return home from work. Shaokat took the opportunity to criticize Arif for the way he treated their home like a boarding house. Shaokat suggested Arif should start paying rent. Yasmin tried to distract her father by mentioning a case at work she thought was interesting.

Instead, Shaokat asked Arif what he had been doing with his day. Arif became angry when Shaokat suggested that Arif had not been applying for any...