" While Kong Bina idiosyncratically swept the floors in their small house, Sophie was cajoled, poked, threatened and shouted into waking by her mother; while Sophie brushed her teeth, Kong Bina slapped clothes onto the wet bathroom floor with good-natured viciousness; as Sophie sat on a mora in the kitchen, eating her regulation one and a half parathas, spray and spittle flew from Kong Bina at the sink as she vigorously scrubbed used dinner plates. She would report, as she maniacally washed, on Firdaus, the woman who was still unmarried and lived with her wretched grandfather. "

― Anjum Hasan , Lunatic In My Head