He and your father were protecting each other's backs.

But even the most solicitous father cannot protect his daughters from a changing culture.

And a responsible father would have protected the family heritage with a trust.

Or that your father can protect you, locked at the end of Bifrost bridge.

But Liza believes her father can protect their town.

Is that how your father once protected the Ayatollah in Paris?

Now he might never know the identity of the man your father protected.

I'll protect him, the way your father once protected me.

Her father protected happy children from horrible strange men.

The hole at the center of the book is the unanswered question of why the father did not protect his sons.