Part I: Section 31 Summary

Behrani kneels gluing Nadi's mother's table. After Kathy drives away weeping, Nadi pushes the note in front of him, her eyes glaring with mistrust and anger. She curses him in Farsi as a dog with no father. He lets her curses pass over him like training jets without ammunition (he thinks Nadi had always been superstitious, taking extra coins with her when she went shopping, to give to whomever asked: the victims of SAVAK, the blind, and the lame).

Part I: Section 31 Analysis

Nadi curses Behrani: it is because of him that all their names are on the death list. She retreats and barricades herself in her room. It is only when she calls him selfish that he responds angrily, listing all he's done for his family.