Born to unwed parents in the first story and witness to the brutal justice they receive as a result by the final tale Tor Baz takes a wife.
But the final tale, a contemporary one about a man who leaves his loyal wife to pursue a life of ambition, is slow and rather stale.
Only in the final tale, about a lonely multimillionaire's desire for his sturdy cleaning ladies, does a note of pity creep in.
In the book's final tale, Tony, a seventy-three-year-old retired British civil servant, is consumed by thoughts of mortality: "He thinks about death quite a lot now.
After recounting his final tale, which involved a particularly nasty immigration officer, Mr. Halaby decided to show a few movements inspired, he said, by the strength and determination of the Palestinian people.
There's a sense of conclusion in the final tale, but it's modest and the other works could probably be performed in any order without anyone being the wiser.
His final tale is about the period he spent working on a weed farm.
The final tale, "The Song of Destiny", is the story of a spaceship travelling from Earth to find a new home for humanity, spinning through space in an ever-accelerating series of spirals.
Kit reappears in "Gold Star," the final tale.
His wife of 44 years appears only once, in passing, and not until the final tale.
