Summary

In Chapter 13, Rami continues on his motorbike after glancing at this watch and noticing that Palestine and Israel have fallen temporarily into different time zones; one observes daylight savings, while the other does not.

In Chapter 14, the narrative then describes how rubber bullets originated in Ireland, first intended for secondary contact on humans only after ricocheting off the ground. However, a bullet killed a girl named Abir after it hit her in the head while she was on her way home from the grocery store, described in Chapters 15 and 16. She had bought candy bracelet for herself and her sister. Chapter 17 intimates that, since Abir’s death, a man named Bassam has prayed daily at the mosque an hour before dawn, for his wife, his children, and the memory of Abir.

Anata is a Palestinian town in the hills just outside Jerusalem. It borders the...