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Chapter 26
“We make chapati, Hannah. Is dinner.”
“Oh, good!” she said. “What’s chapati?”
With the sun already setting, it was difficult to see
inside. Wilkister took Hannah by the hand. “Come,
Hannah. I show you my room.”
Wilkister shared a bed with her baby sister and her
two brothers shared a bed on the opposite side of the room.
There was a window with no glass in between their beds.
Outside were the chickens and rooster.
Wilkister’s dani—her grandmother—slept on a
couch in the main room. The two couches were hard
and thin, like old futons, and padded with scratchy wool
blankets. Hannah wondered when they would ever need
wool blankets. Then she thought back to the sweaters and
jackets the teachers wore in 85-degree weather.
“Dani, this Hannah.”
Hannah and Wilkister’s grandmother exchanged
greetings.
“You are watch Evelyn, is good?”
“Yes, yes,” Dani said and took Wilkister’s baby sister
with her outside.
“Where are your brothers?” Hannah asked.
“They work harvest. They come back for dinner.”
“Oh,” Hannah said.
“You want make necklace and bracelet then make
chapati, is good? And ugali?”
“Sure! What’s ugali?”
