Jessica ’s answer to “So, the ending with Isra finally taking the girls and running away...are we to assume that this rel…” > Likes and Comments

Oh wow, yes, I didn't think of it like that!!

I really think the author wrote the ending in a way that you could choose what satisfied you. It's pretty brilliant when you think about it.

I saw it this way too.

I saw it this way, too. But I like the dual meaning of the ending. Now I want to go back and find Deya's memory...

But didn't people acknowledge she was really beaten to death?

But.... but there is a documented homicide and suicide... I... what?

I didn't take it that way at ALL. I thought Deya saying she could "write her own story" referred both to:
1. going forward she could choose her destiny
2. she could document her own story of her life (meta: the author says this story is semi-autobiographical)

I do not at all think Deya is saying she could rewrite the past. I think we're finally getting the real leadup to the events of Isra's actual death, when she finally tragically decided to leave Adam with her daughters and then horrifically ran into him in the subway when trying to do so - had a tense ice cream in the park - and got beaten to death later that night. We knew all of it except how the "meeting in the subway" happened prior in the book and now in the last pages know the missing piece.

That's a good point as well