Challenge 1154

Hidden Stories

In Ly Ann’s Daughter Unmoored:
1. How likely is it that Kaia could keep the remedy for snake venom potent for so long without refrigeration?
2. What happened to Kaia’s mother? The mother tries to explain it to Kaia, but what is it? How might the family history be clarified?
In Harrison Kim’s, The Dragonflies of Chaac:
1. What self-dissatisfaction brings the narrator bicycling into the Maya country of Mexico? Does he ever explain his motive beyond a search for a “spiritual experience”?
2. Does the narrator recover or discover his identity as Alicante?
3. What do the dragonflies symbolize?
In Charles C. Cole’s Mott Brinegar, Mountain Man:
1. Why does it come as a surprise that Mott Brinegar can speak fluently and articulately in addressing the intruders?
2. Mott Brinegar’s description of the trees’ interrelationship is accurate, but to what extent does he carry it too far? Is it unreasonable to expect the intruders will believe him?