By her own account, in the essays collected in Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces (2018), this historical rupture confronted her with fundamental questions about continuity and change, agency and contingency, borders and identity, liberation and loss.
Her first two novellas, The Story of the Old Child (1999) and The Book of Words (2004), hover in an ambiguous zone between historical specificity and decontextualization.
Late in the story she attends an assembly on the anniversary of the firebombing of the city where the children's home is located.
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