Thousand splendid suns (page 31)

IN THE MORNINGS, they got up to the far off bleating of sheep and the sharp toot of a woodwind as Gul Daman's shepherds driven their rush to eat on the green slope. Mariam and Nana drained the goats, sustained the hens, and gathered eggs. They made bread together. Nana demonstrated to her generally accepted methods to massage mixture, how to arouse the oven and slap the smoothed batter onto its internal dividers. Nana showed her to sew as well, and to cook rice and all the diverse garnishes: shalqam stew with turnip, spinach sabzi, cauliflower with ginger.