Section 10: Chapter 13 and 14 Summary

The second part of this novel opens with a conversation between two women, Ama and Aba, about how men leave women or add new women for many reasons, such as beauty, youth, energy, social status, education and career. In Chapter 13, Ali and Esi drive to Esi's village on one Sunday in July. Esi's father grill Ali mercilessly on two main points: whether his wife knows of his intention to marry Esi and why he has brought no one except an employee with him. Ali claims he has no one to back his side of the marriage because his family is up north, but since marriage involves two families investigating and approving one another, Esi's fathers order Ali to bring solid people for them to talk to or forget about marrying Esi. Ali worries that no one will back him...