And the Mountains Echoed

The narration for this chapter is from young Pari, the daughter of Abdullah, as she recalls how her father used to pluck out any bad dreams from her head before bedtime , and then insert good ones. He would tell the stories about these good dreams before she went to sleep. She was an only child, and longed desperately for a sibling, and so “adopted” Pari (Abdullah's sister) into her consciousness as her own. Pari told her father the same dream that he would have every night— - about napping with his little sister, Pari. She feels a special connection with this lost aunt, mostly because they share the same name, but there iwas something more to it. She listensed deeply to the re-telling of the loss of her aunt Pari, “and although she "couldn't wholly understand, linked beyond [their] names, beyond familial ties, as if, together, [they] completed a puzzle. [She] felt certain that if [she] listened closely enough to [this] story, [she] would discover something revealed about [herself]” (348).

Pari (Abdullah's daughter) picks up her Aaunt Pari Wahdati from the airport. They discuss the amazing opportunity it is to finally meet and put together the missing pieces of each of their life’s history.