Chapter II
Obviously, Mariam loved her father. Though her mother, Nana, had told her a lot of immoral things that her father had done to herself and his own daughter, Mariam still believed her beloved papa was dear and kind to her. The description of Nana’s first wedding and the symptoms of her illness are vivid, such as throttling her from inside, the froth at the corner of her mouth, white, and sometimes pink with blood. Names of different kinds of trees appeared in the book, like willow, poplar, tuberose and grove. The name of fish, trout, is also new to me.