Discuss Nahr’s characterization. How does she grow and change over the course of her character arc? What are her beliefs and values, and how do they evolve?

How does this novel depict life in the diaspora and the experience of displacement? How does Nahr’s experience resemble or diverge from the experience of other Palestinians in the text?

Analyze the depiction of Palestinian culture in the text. What aspects of Palestinian culture are explored? What is the wider significance of these cultural elements?