Lullaby

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In lullaby, i remember very distinctly that ta there is the economic difference between the the the nanny and the protagonist. And in this novel too, i think that that te the racial difference, or the ethnic difference and the national difference, is intersected by money, by class. Of course it's important for me because i've always been amanahab. I'm er american, but i am also a bourgeois. Don't i know that the fact that i am a bourgeois makes me, in a certain way, less arab? Absolutely.

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