Summary

In Not That Kind of Bomb, Naomi leaves Francine and decides to search Webster’s campus for Hannah, but with no luck. Naomi goes home and tries to sleep but is kept awake by the sense that something is not right. She then receives a phone call that has her rushing to Billings Hall, where she learns that a bomb had been set off in her office. The fire is quickly put out with minimal damage to the building. When the police as Naomi who she thinks could be angry enough with her personally to set a bomb, Naomi “suddenly felt very calm” and tells them, “The person who did this was Omar Khayal” (295).

The Point of Looking Closely then opens with the discovery that Omar was gone, nowhere to be found. After the...