Summary

In Chapters 121 through 136, the narrative further describes the death of Abir and the actions of the suicide bombers, drawing similarities to the story of David and Goliath. Often, young Palestinian boys will paint the stones they throw, and Israeli soldiers will occasionally launch the stones back at their assailants. The narrative then describes frigate birds and their flight patterns—intimating that they were once called Men-of-War by ancient mariners and much later used by Israeli engineers as a model for drones later used to fire spike-missiles into Gaza.

According to Chapters 137 and 138, Abir had a gift for memorization and for math, and Bassam had no doubt she would ace her test the day she died, giving her the pocket change that she then used to go to the candy shop. After she was shot, she suffered head injuries for which a treatment required greater...