When did you figure out that Mohammed was a product of Nuri's imagination? And how did you feel about that revelation?
Created: 06/17/20
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It was close to the end of the book -- when Nuri ended up on the beach. It was kind of an "Aha!" moment for me -- I was surprised I had not caught on earlier, because suddenly it seemed so obvious he was imaginary.
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I believed he was real for most of the book until the beach scene. My book club members caught on long before me that Nuri was delusional and this was his way of coping with the loss of his son.
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For the longest time I thought that he was another child who Nuri had lost along the way. Like LaurieF, I didn't figure out he was a figment of Nuri's imagination until the beach scene.
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It was a clever way to see into Nuri’s mind and his heartbreak. While I guessed it fairly early on, it relished in Nuri’s visions and “conversation” with Mohammed. It gave a bigger glimpse of Nuri has a father and as a protector.
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I knew when Mohammed was visiting Nuri at the B and B that he was not real. BUT I assumed that Nuri was experiencing stress and sadness over losing Mohammed in Greece and was having a vision of him. I assumed Nuri knew this, but then I did not question why he was completing odd tasks and taking the strange requests of Mohammed seriously. It wasn't until the beach scene I realized that there was never a little boy traveling with Nuri and Afra. I think Nuri was so overwhelmed with all he was dealing with that invention of Mohammed kept him somewhat functional and able to move forward.
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I began to wonder if Mohammed was real when no one else and especially Afra seemed to talk about him. When Afra had the marble and didn't ask about Mohammed it was really an ah-ha moment.
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Early on I suspected that Mohammed wasn't really there but was how Nuri was coping with the loss of Sami and Afra's loss of vision. I don't remember exactly when I knew, but several clues made it click and I felt very sad.
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I started realizing that Mohammed may have never existed after Nuri falls in the water and Mohammed "disappears" shortly thereafter. Coming to that realization was actually painful because I felt incredibly sad for Nuri because I knew he was likely trying to cope with the loss of his own son by creating this child in his mind who needed his help. I had wanted to believe that Mohammed had been real though, up until the end of the book, but I had this sinking feeling for a while that he had never been real.
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