One disaster always begets another, and another. Your dad disappears in Azerbaijan, and your uncles sell you off, and your daughter gets set up with a mean man, and their daughter gets a warrant on her head, and a million other tragedies play out on every side. The story goes on, and you can’t pretend that dropping one knot in a rug is the only mistake keeping it from perfection. The truth is that everything has a hundred thousand flaws.

