What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde

Author:Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When i was home over the new year’s holiday, I told my father about Maryam and her husband. I told him how he tormented her. And how she only responded with more care. I wanted Papa to talk to her. Tell her to yell back. Tell her to move on.

I was lying on the carpet with my head in his lap, as he slowly twirled his pipe between his fingers.

“It is a higher thing to love than to be loved, dokhtaram.”

I looked at him incredulously. Was that all? Wasn’t he going to defend our honor? Wasn’t he going to protect Maryam?

He glanced at my mother, standing at the stove, and I understood even though I was just a child. Mama’s tense, slender back. Her unsmiling face. I understood that he loved her without being loved back. And I knew then that this was not what I wanted. I knew I wanted to be loved, that I wanted to feel it every moment. To do the loving, that was nothing but work and disappointment.

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