I helped Fatimeh with her rugs, the cooking, buying things, even doing the washing. At night I took everything down to the qanat. The men would say, ‘Hey, look at the crazy man who comes to wash his children’s clothes and the dishes.’ No men did any cleaning. Only the women. One man even said, ‘If I were Hassan, I would throw myself off the mosque roof.’ ” “Now all the men are washing dishes,” Fatimeh said. “Yeah, I started a revolution in Tudeshk,” said Hassan. “You became a hero for the women,” my mother said. “And enemy for men,” Rasool whined. “Good baba,” Maryam said.
