Khalifah's novel critiques the expectation for historical trauma to be narrated as a singular story, highlighting the complexities and losses inherent in such simplification.
The characters in Sand-Catcher represent archetypes and illustrate that beneath labels lies a rich, yet often unrecognized, variety of personal experiences that shape identity.
Khalifah suggests that the compulsion to simplify or summarize narratives of trauma can diminish the rich individuality of those experiences, which must be acknowledged.
The juxtaposition of individual stories against the collective trauma of the Nakba in Sand-Catcher reveals the inadequacy of singular narratives in capturing the Palestinian experience.
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