and went to New York in 1951. Likewise, IIka escaped England and arrived to New York in the 1951. 4. The protagonist in the book happens to be random strangers. Many Americans that saw IIka and Carter, a middle-aged African American, in public saw them as a bad thing. Many of them stared as if a mixed couple was a horrible thing and also many talked about them. 5. This novel is both first person and third person. At some point IIka is talking about how she feels about certain things. For example when she goes with carter to listen to jazz with his friends. She talked to them all but has side notes of her saying how she wants to be polite and how shy she was toward them. It is also third person because the author, Lore Segal, specifies what