Memory and the past

Question 1

“It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned,

Answer 1

about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”

Question 2

“The next time I saw him smile

Answer 2

unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.”

Question 3

“Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me.

Answer 3

A city of harelipped ghosts.
America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past.”

Question 4

“I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with.

Answer 4

I opened my mouth and almost told her how I’d betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali.”