summarize pages 121-128

In this section, Mahmoud is still in Izmir “11 days from home” (121). The smuggler tells the family there is no boat today, come back tomorrow and Mahmoud and his family are upset. The smuggler has told them this every day for a week. Exasperated, they return to the mall, but they Turkish men stop them and insist they must pay to stay there. They find another place but the police make them move. A car comes down the road and Mahmoud stops in front of it waving the life vests. An elderly man with a headscarf stops to listen to Mahmoud. The man speaks to them in Arabic and says they can stay at his business. Mahmoud’s father tries to refuse but they get into the car. The man is also a refugee, from Palestine. Mahmoud’s father gets a text that the boat is there, and they turn around. The boat is there waiting for them.