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‘“And you,” Munis turned to the girl. “Didn’t you get knocked up last year by your cousin? And didn’t you have an abortion by Mrs. Fatemi?”’

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‘“On principle,” he said, “women belong in the house. The outside is the world of men.”’

She has a crush on this dude??

‘“That son-of-a-bitch, her brother,” Fa’iza answered. “He looks like shit, like a overflowing toilet. I was outraged. I thought of slapping her so hard to burst her eardrums, something she’d never forget. ... ‘First of all,’ I told her, ‘only the Angel of Death would mess around with your brother. The way he looks only the Angel of Death would be interested in him....”’

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“Somewhere Fa’iza had read that people with round faces are mentally defective. She had run to the mirror to make sure she did not belong to this retarded group, although she had been made aware many times before, mostly by Nana Jan’s pejorative, hurtful comments, that she had horse-like features.”

Oh no

“The servant girl, Fati, fifteen years old, but more resembling a streetwalker, lay at the far end of the greenhouse with Yadollah, the gardener, with a bald head and repulsive, red-rimmed eyes, panting, panting, panting.”

Oh no