Nostalgia
This term describes the bittersweet longing for something that no longer exists or has changed.
What is nostalgia?
These black portals erase the importance of borders throughout the novel.
The doors
In chapter 10, Nadia avoids isolation better than Saeed because she is able to do this.
Adapt/form new relationships
Saeed continues to practice this habit from the past even in Marin.
Praying
Despite being surrounded by millions in cities like London or San Francisco, many characters experience this type of "crowded" loneliness.
What is alienation/invisibility?
The Palo Alto’s woman children encourage her to leave behind this physical reminder of her past life.
Her house
Even when the circumstances shift in her surrounding life the Palo Alto women‘s attachment to her home shows how memory can slow this down.
Moving forward/changing
This modern technology is the way characters try to bridge the gap between their old lives and new ones.
What is the internet/phones
How many children did the Palo Alto woman have?
2
This specific emotion often acts as a "trap" for migrants, preventing them from fully integrating into their new lives.
What is mourning/what is regret?
The Palo Alto woman’s isolation is first shown after the death of this person.
Her husband (2nd)
Who did the Palo Alto woman think looked more at home than she was?
“The homeless ones who spoke no English”.
What did the old woman say to be patient about?
Her house, because it would be the kids “soon”.
“For people bought and sold houses the way they bought and sold ______”.
Stocks
Which descendant of The Palo Alto woman was the only one that would still see her, meeting up with her ”often as much as once a week”.
Her granddaughter