Juice Book

Translation is about this girl who realizes she is part of something bigger in this world than most would think. She notices how things she has grown used to has changed and she knows it was possibly for the best. One could tell she is African American by the way she describes she is part of a tribe. Proportion Surviving this girl is addicted to "juice" which could possibly mean past memories. She clings on to these greatly. She always wants it because it helps her live her life and write her stories. The juice also effected her love life, by finding new loves and also losing them.

No Through Street is a story about a girl who lives her life traveling on trains in search of her sister. On the train she basically sees how life is to most people. When she looks out the window things go by to fast to follow. This is true in life for the times when you focus your mind on one thing, that you miss everything else going on around you. She seems to only be an observer and never actually participate in life because she sees love and loss all the time, yet she never experiences it herself. The sister the narrator is in search of, I believe is not really her sister but somebody she noticed before and admired greatly. If it were her sister, she would have been able to get in touch with her some way, at least that's what I believe because this sister seems to be famous and never acknowledges the narrator.

First Sleep seemed to be a confusing tale of sleep. The narrator describes how she enters into different levels of sleep (third, sixth, ninth, tenth...). She is usually awaken by a phone ringing. She also describes how sleeping helps clear the minds of other people. Mrs. Gladman is one of the elderly women in the story and she disappears, but the narrator seems to have had a premonition of her disappearance yet she cannot remember it. The neighborhood always seems to go into the streets over some commotion going on in the town.