Summary

Page 159 is titled, “Yesterday & Tomorrow” and three pages long as Yasmeen and Nima get out of the river and walk toward their parents’ house. Nima feels mad at herself for saving Yasmeen, resentful of “this spirit-girl who still probably wants me dead [line break] who probably would not have saved me” (159). Yasmeen senses her anger, and responds in her own anger, “[all italicized] you don’t know what it’s like for me [new stanza] living nowhere existing nowhere [line break] stuck watching between worlds [new stanza] watching you waste all the life you’ve been given . . . you have no idea what you have” (160). Yasmeen reminds her, “[italicized] you’re the one [line break] that summoned me, stupid” (160). Yasmeen tells her she has watched Nima live stuck in the past, moaning over a man who did not want them, and suggests she should...