Part 1 ends as Isra delivers her daughter Deya, to Fareeda’s chagrin. She also grows closer with Sarah, Adam’s younger sister, and Sarah offers to bring her books but she declines. She calls the number and a woman refuses to tell Deya her name but tells her to skip school, and come to Manhattan to meet her. One day, Deya receives a letter with a business card for Books and Beans. Deya asks Fareeda to tell her the truth about her parents' death, but Fareeda tells her to move on. Fareeda shows her an unsent letter from Isra to her mother dated 1997 that shows how depressed Isra was. Deya meanwhile listens to her friends at school talk about their weddings and decides she does not want to get married but go to college. All she does is chores with Fareeda, or stares out the window. He works all day and late into the night and barely pays attention to her. Isra falls into her new pattern of life with Adam though she quickly does not like it. That night he forces her to have sex and wipes her vaginal blood as proof of her virginity. Isra lands in New York and Adam takes her home to Brooklyn, where they will live in the basement of the family home. Deya thinks about her memories of her father beating her mother. Later that night she tells her three younger sisters Nora, Layla, and Amal about him, and they talk about their parents who died in a car accident when Deya was seven. Afterwards, Fareeda tells her Nasser wants to see her again, and she begrudgingly agrees to meet him again. 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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