Chaptes 27-35 Summary

In Chapter 27, Laila is being nursed by Miriam and Rasheed. Rasheed had found her in the rubble with metal stuck in her shoulder. Rasheed tells her that Tariq's house has been occupied by militia boys, but then it too has been blown up. Laila says that she should be there, and Miriam cannot console her. She remembers the words from the Koran being insufficient when Mullah Faizullah read them at her mother's funeral.

In Chapter 28, Abdul Sharif comes to Rasheed's house to tell Laila that he was in a hospital with Tariq, and he was there when Tariq died of wounds from being fired upon in the convoy of refugees. As Laila takes the news, she finds herself resembling her mother, except that she isn't screaming, she's just paralyzed with grief.

In Chapter 29, Miriam is furious to see Rasheed so solicitous...