Screenshot of the following novel excerpt: Nasrin comes inside from a walk that night after everyone else has gone to bed. She’s rooming with Isabelle. Upon entering the room, she finds Isabelle sitting on the edge of her bed, brooding over a book, ignoring the open laptop behind her.
Isabelle looks up, smiles, and motions for Nasrin to sit beside her. As Nasrin gets closer, she sees the book is Isabelle’s journal. The page contains a rough sketch of Isabelle’s birth mother with a question mark beside it.
Nasrin sits. “You know we can return to Arizona and see her again whenever you want.”
Isabelle nods. “Yo se. Might if I thought I could speak to her this time.” Her fingers trace the question mark beside the picture of her madre. “Mom, our adopted mom, says who we are is whatever story we write, but there’s more to it than that. I’m just a chapter. I want to know what the rest of the book was about.”
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