“ A biography? You wish for a biography? Who do you think you are chronicling, the Grand Mufti of Mecca? My people do not wax poetic about lineage like yours do”

lol

This shows me the author has done her research because Ive read an English translation of The tale of princess Fatima, warrior woman, which is a very old middle eastern tale (that i already highly recommend to anyone who likes this book). In that story, and most other originally oral stories, it starts with a very long list of all the mc’s relatives and the actual story begins with her great gandmother and great grandfather!! You don’t hear a single story about her until you get all of her past!!