Matilde is dislocated from alsason, and in her new home, she is dislocated. She increasingly adjusts to er a moroccan moslem culture her children. There's a very striking moment when isha, her daughter, is sent toa convent chool in imorocco. And shes, she notices the whispering natives and the children,. The europeans playing hop scotch, and she doesn't know where to go, where she belongs. A what did sho want to convey about this experience of dis dislocation? And why does it matter? Why write a whole novel about it?