The class was left with many unresolved moments in this text.
Patrick: "how Armanoush learned about her Armenian past and the intimate details that she relates to the Kavancı family."
Caroline: "With three distinct generational chasms how is the past living in the present?"
Rachel: "After the death of Mustafa, why did Asye react the way she did at the revelation of her father? And didn't Shafak give more detail? And what about Asye's relationship with the Cartoonist?" (okay that is three good questions)
Klara: "What happened to the Cartoonist? To Baron B? Petite Ma? And, most importantly, what did Shafak mean by the story? What was the symbolism of Asye having to apologize for the past she did not know at Cafe Constantinopolis?"
Peter: "Did this all really happen? I want Shafak to answer that question. If there is so much magical realism within this text how can there be any truth?"
Peter's question has some metaphysical and moral overtones: given competing stories about the past, some of which are exaggerated or even invented, how do we come to the truth? Can we?
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