Karen answers “Does the page and a half at the beginning...”

Princessdarcy asked this question about Exit West:

Does the page and a half at the beginning that the author spends talking about the parent's sex life in vivid detail have anything to do with the actual story? The father's impotence and the mother's insatiable sexual appetite seems to be well out of place...

Karen For me, in addition to what has already been answer, the parents sex life was a way to point out that they truly loved each other and did not follow w…moreFor me, in addition to what has already been answer, the parents sex life was a way to point out that they truly loved each other and did not follow what we might assume is the traditional of arranged marriage. In many ways, everything in this book challenges what we assume of Muslim people in Muslim nations.
ETA... by "we" I mean typical Western thinking.(less)

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