The Punishment of Virtue (2006)
“If you’re taking more than $10,000 out of the United States, you have to declare it to customs. But having worked in various places lacking banks in my day, I was yet to be convinced of the value—for me—of that particular formality. So with $18,000 of Concord’s money secreted in various private places about my person, I returned to Afghanistan in May, just in time for the first offensive of summer heat.Nothing came easily. I moved back in with my Achekzai family in the graveyard, which felt fam...iliar, though the promiscuity and lack of a toilet were hard to contemplate as part of a permanent arrangement. With the windfall they had reaped from me and the NPR reporter who had replaced me, they had bought a television set and a dented satellite dish that they had anchored precariously to their mud roof. Now, of an evening, my maelmastun was filled will male neighbors glued, agog, to raunchy Bolly-wood images. Our card games were over.It did not take long for Zabit Akrem to catch wind of my presence back in the house.MoreLess
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