Significance of Sara's writing

Sara's writing career, which has been moderately successful and built over the course of years, symbolizes her stubborn insistence to make meaning out of every day life. Lejla resents this impulse and wishes Sara would obsess less over meaning and learn to live in the moment. On their road trip to Vienna, Lejla confronts Sara about her writing career: "'There's no point, Sara. You and your goddamned points...Theme, motive...Setting. Not everything has a point. Grow up'" (172). Lejla holds Sara's obsession with meaning in contempt. She lives her life from moment to moment, feeling reality physically, as it is; Sara, by contrast, is the one who reflects, judges, recalls, and generally celebrates the contemplative way of life. Her writing is a testament to this - as is the entire novel.