Chapter 8, "The Young Carpenter"
"So, you see," Meme Milli said when both Avi and I were seating next to her, "you're named after my husband - your grandpa Nani." We stayed at Meme's house while Mom was at the doctor's office’ "Tell me more, Meme ," I asked. "What happened to him?" "It all started many years ago," Meme continued. "I was very young when my parents died. My mother was a maid for a rich family, and after she died, my oldest sister Beya took her place and raised me until I was old enough to work. Her employers brought me up to be their maid. My other sisters were already married and moved out of town. I washed floors and dishes, I dusted, I did the laundry, I did everything around the house. One day a young gentleman came and asked my keepers to let me go so he could marry me, and so he did. This gentleman was your grandfather. He was a divorced man who had a daughter from his previous marriage. His daughter stayed with her mother. ...