One night, Nadia obtains weed from a coworker.
Hiking home,
she realizes she doesn’t know how Saeed will react—of course,
they’ve smoked joints before, but so much has changed since then, and Saeed has become incredibly devout. She sometimes felt that his praying was not neutral towards her Hamid writes,
“in fact she suspected it carried a hint of reproach, though why she felt this she could not say When she’s about
to show Saeed the marijuana, then, she recognizes that how he responds is a matter of portentous significance to her Sitting on a car seat they use as a couch, she touches his leg he offers her a small,
fatigued smile. This, she thinks, is encouraging She then opens her hand to reveal the weed and waits for his reaction. After a brief pause, he begins laughing almost soundlessly saying,
“Fantastic.”
Nadia’s suspicion that Saeed’s prayer is not neutral towards her”once more illustrates the extent to which his religious devotion hascome between them. Of course, this is possibly a projection ofShare with your friends: