![]() She meets with Nasser in the kitchen while his parents talk to her grandparents. She is 18, in high school, and wants to go to college, but Fareeda wants her to get married first. Part 1 begins from Deya’s perspective, in 2008 in Brooklyn, as she prepares mint chai for a suitor, Nasser. Her perspective ends as she hopes her life will be better in America. ![]() They go to Jerusalem to get her visa, and have a big wedding celebration. She is 17, and her parents have brought a suitor to marry her: a Palestinian man named Adam who lives in America. The perspective changes to third person from Isra, in Birzeit, Palestine, in 1990. The perspective ends as she explains that the story begins in Palestine. The novel begins without a chapter, heading, or defined character - but a female voice explaining to the reader how, “I was born without a voice” (1). The novel is broken into three parts, but for the purposes of this guide will be broken into eight sections. The following version was used to create this guide: Rum, Etaf. ![]()
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