"We keep driving even as the snowflakes clump on the wipers, and poor Abba can barely see. Coconut flakes, Ma jokes. We'll go outside and scoop them up, and I'll make you some polao. But the jokes lie still in our throats."
I think that this quote really sets the mood of the family's anxiousness on the trip. They were taking a big risk by heading up to Canada for asylum, as they had no idea if they would be accepted or not. This quote helps to understand that basically the only thing on their minds was what would happen if Canada denied asylum.
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