While I might think I was making independent choices and moving around freely in the world, it was as though a secret groove had been carved, and some invisible bumpers were going to push me gently back into that groove, the Jew groove, Sarahland, and Sarahland would trick me and trick me into thinking it was the entire world.
-- Sarah (Sarahland)

Importance: Sarah comments on the fact that she lives in an all-female, all-Jewish dormitory at college, surrounded by other girls named Sarah. She feels as though she cannot escape certain parameters that seem to exist invisibly in her life to find other ways of being. She does not relate to the other Sarahs' goals and interests, but she does not know how to be independent. This feeling is very similar to that expressed by Sarah in "Naked Furniture," who seeks a way outside of the roles and expectations of "The Only Story...