Chapter 13

Summary

• In the kitchen, Yara gives her daughters Mira and Jude their lunches while recalling her visit to the fortune teller and feeling numb.
• Yara remains preoccupied with the past, specifically the shame her family faced after whispers about her parents circulated in their community.
• At her workplace, Yara struggles to do her usual tasks and reminisces about her previous job as a teacher.
• Taking a walk around campus, Yara attempts to push the fortune teller's words out of her mind, reflecting on the recent troubles in her life and her determination to keep her job.
• Yara encounters Jonathan on campus, feels ashamed, and hurriedly avoids him.
• A painful memory is triggered when Yara sees her own reflection and recalls her mother saying that her dreams died when Yara was born.
• To cope with the memories, Yara keeps herself extremely busy with daily routines and chores after picking up her daughters from school.
• Yara goes to great lengths to please Fadi and his mother Nadia by cooking elaborate dinners and cleaning the house, even consenting to attend social events with Nadia.
• Despite her efforts to distract herself, memories continue to surface, particularly when she engages in household tasks that remind her of her mother.
• Yara contemplates if her life will be confined and dictated by others' perceptions and fears like her mother's was, questioning what her own future holds.