Redemption

Question 1

“I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite.

Answer 1

Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son was worthy.”

Question 2

“Rahim Khan had summoned me here

Answer 2

to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too.”

Question 3

“For the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace.

Answer 3

I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in the corner of my mind, I’d even been looking forward to this… My body was broken but I felt healed.”

Question 4

“That, I believe, is what true

Answer 4

redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

Question 5

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded,

Answer 5

not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

Question 6

““For you,

Answer 6

a thousand times over”