Joshua’s new social consciousness-worry for the girl and wondering how his observations correspond to what he’s been told-is tangled up in his consistently degrading relationship with Liev. He hates Amarias, where his once-joyful mother covers her hair and defers to Liev, but he doesn’t much think about The Wall, the checkpoints and the soldiers he’s told protect him from “the people who live on the other side.” Joshua finds a tunnel that takes him under The Wall, where he’s rescued by a girl. Thirteen-year-old Joshua lives in Amarias with his mother and despised stepfather, Liev. An Israeli settlement in the occupied territories forms the thinly disguised setting of a tale inappropriately introduced with an epigraph from the Gospels.
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