Today i finished book one. From where we left off, Mariam was on her way to town to find Jalil. After getting lost, Mariam asks an old man if he knows where Jalil lives. "Everyone knows Jalil's house!"he said; the kind old man ended up giving Mariam a ride for free. When Mariam arrived at Jalil's home, a woman with a tattoo over her lip opened the gates. "I am Jalil's daughter, i need to see him" Mariam said. The woman left, but a big man came back at the gate. He was Jalil's driver-he told Mariam to go home...that it was getting late and cold. Mariam said that she wouldn't leave until she saw Jalil. The man offered to give her a ride home, but she refused. When they closed the gates, Mariam sat on the ground and would not move. The woman with the tattoo came again but with food. Mariam refused to eat it, but eventually got very hungry and did so. After a long time, Mariam finally fell asleep, and had awoken with a blanket over her and the big man shaking her shoulder. When she got up, she immediately ran past him through the gates and into the garden. Then as she tried to get a glimpse of Jalil in the window the curtains closed and she was caught by the man. Kicking and screaming and crying, the man put Mariam in the backseat of his car. When they arrived in the valley, they got out and he started to walk her to her kaba. Before he could cover her eyes, Mariam saw the willow tree with a rope around it...with Nana hanging from it.
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