Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. About Having a Late Child and How Perijan Dealt with This Embarrassment
2. About Space and How Maryan Got Back a Verandah
3. About Barrenness and What Tala Did about It
4. On Wealth and Poverty and How Gouhar and Aftab Had a Falling-out
5. About Telling It as It Is and How Golgol Left Her Husband and Went Back to Him
6. A Betrothal, a Rape, and a Guess about Turan's Fate
7. The Little Changes that Happened When Simin Became Avdal's Wife
8. Mamalus Is Telling a Story
9. Watching the World from Sarah's Loom
10. Setara, Six Proposals, Four Engagements, and Three Husbands the Wiser
11. About Crazy People and Butterfly's Silence
12. Huri on Beads, Stringing a Necklace of Embers
Epilogue