Speak up, boy! A letter reader who has no voice is no good to me.
I'll be moving in this afternoon,Parvana.
Mrs. Weera and I are going to work together,
Kaseem. What are you doing here?
Call me Shafiq. And what do I call you?
Parvana finally had a customer, it's a member of the Taliban and he's carrying a rifle. Speaking Pashtu, he asks Parvana if she's a letter-reader. she read the letter for the man and she found out that talibans have feelings when a tear feel out from the man.
Mrs. Weera is moving in, which makes Parvana happy because when she is around Mother feels like "her old self". Mrs.Weera is going to create a magazine with Mother.
what if they dig up a body that hasn't fully decayed?
We'll find one with a bone sticking out of it
Parvana helps a tea boy picks up cups that he drops, but for real the tea boy is actually a tea girl. It's her friend, Shauzia, from her old school. Parvana is shocked to see Shauzia dressed up as Shafiq doing the same exact thing she's been doing.
Parvana invites Shauzia to stop in and say hello to her family, and when they enter the apartment, everyone is so happy to see Shauzia, and Mother wants her to bring her family over for a bite to eat.
Parvana and Shauzia worked with a group of others to a cemetery where they were going to dig up bones for money. They dug bones from five graves.They received more money than Parvana usually made in three days. They continued through the afternoon.
Although Parvana tried to keep her promise to Shauzia and not tell her family she’d been digging up bones, she fell into her mother’s arms and cried after only a few questions from them about her day. Her mother commented that the Afghans had been reduced to digging up bones in order to feed their families.