The stories in this book were wide and varied, the final story the hardest to deal with. The complexities of living in a capitalist society where your life and family depend on the money you can provide to them. How do you balance your ethics with your will to survive and prosper, where does the line appear to tell you to turn back? You have gone further than you should now. Nothing is worth the cost of selling your dreams to those who oppress you. 

I thought a lot about the responsibility of representing your people or community with kindness. The Palestinian people don't have the privilege of being hard to deal with, weird or angry, as so many marginalized people can't. There is no room for human flaws in the minds of the oppressor because confirmation bias is going to eat that one weird thing someone did and spit it up as a reason we shouldn't trust that entire marginalised group.