A) Laila awakens at Rasheed and Mariam’s household where she is given news of Tariq’s death. Later on, Rasheed marries Laila for her youth, and Laila agrees because she is pregnant with Tariq’s child. Laila gives birth to her daughter, Aziza, and Rasheed show resentment because he wanted a son. Afterwards, he is abusive to Mariam and Laila. Mariam resents Laila because she stole her husband, but after connecting with Aziza, and seeing how Rasheed treats Laila, they both realize “that they were not enemies any longer,” (p. 224). Later, Liala plans to run away, and lets Mariam in on her plan. They both run away, but sadly it was unsuccessful because they got caught on the bus. Two and a half years later, the Taliban put restrictions on how men
