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4. Do you think the novel intends to be a critical examination of the U.S. Immigration and naturalization policies? What role does intermarriage play in a two-way investigation of the U.S. immigration system? Finally, what message is the reader left with? Did you see the novel as a statement or an exploration?

Nash criticizes contemporary immigration policy for making Native-Americans and Hispanics second-class citizens. While the book largely avoids discussing foreign policy, it does link immigration to the theme of alienation. The novel begins with an image of Zuyev and Heine sitting on a distant dock watching a boat full of white people stare at their Chinese-American boat mate. Shortly after, Zuyev weeps "like a child...listening for the sounds of the outside world" (p. 37). The Chinese-American boat mate is the product of a relationship between a Russian woman and an Irish Jewish American man. For the first part of the novel, Nash simply sets up an economy of representation and associations, never touching on explicitly the issue of race until Zuyev confesses that he often feels "like an alien" (p. 70). The novel's final lines declare "I will not speak of race...I will speak of beauty...and love" (p. 187). Though it's a metaphor, Nash returns to the issue of race later as the novel returns to this theme in the John's family.

5. What is the relationship between the girls, Ana and Jean, and their parents? How does the two represent the choice between place and family? How does living on the reservation impact the girls, and where would you place them in the novel? What sorts of compromises are the girls forced to make?

Jean and Ana's relationship is a complex one, but it is only superficially a romantic one. Jean is not interested in Ana, and the novel reveals that she has been attracted to other young women. For Jean, the decision to place her son with the Indians is the quintessential act of true love: "It wouldn't have been his fault, being Indian, he was only a plaything, a toy, a convenient means of doing good" (p. 16). The girls' relationship with their parents inevitably becomes more complicated. d2c66b5586