Discussion
Matar's The Return is about suffering. People suffering under Qaddafi and after the Arab Spring. Returning to Libya, Matar desired to "cure himself of his country." He describes his father "as obsessed with the past and future, with returning to and remaking Libya" while his mother was "devoted to the present." Write a children's book similar to the story told by Matar from the perspective of different members of his family or outsiders.