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Jeb Lamb
Yusuf Kahn is Millie Kahn's husband. He is an Afghani immigrant whose family came to Australia to work in the caravan business, carrying various goods across the interior desert. Yusuf once upset Joe Kane by refusing to sell him a horse, suspecting that Joe would abuse the animal. Several days later, the horse was killed and left in the corral, and it's clear that Joe Kane was responsible.
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Yusuf Kahn Character Timeline in The White Girl
The timeline below shows where the character Yusuf Kahn appears in The White Girl. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...used to work the caravan lines carrying goods across Australia’s interior desert. His name is Yusuf.
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...been calls for civil rights accompanied by protests and demonstrations, although not in rural Deane. Yusuf’s cousin faced scrutiny from an aggressive police officer about her mixed-race grandchildren. She lied that...
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Chapter 8
At Yusuf and Millie’s house, Odette tells her friend the terrible truth. Both of them know there’s...
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Chapter 15
...that she “enjoys the support of the State,” she snaps that she and her husband Yusuf, who is a free man, own their land outright. Furthermore, she adds, if Lowe cares...
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...the Kahn place, he asks Millie for a drink. She tells him that she and Yusuf—who is Muslim—consider alcohol evil and refuse to keep it in their house.
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Epilogue
...officially of Odette’s death. She tells Sissy about the night five years earlier—around the time Yusuf died, too—when Odette came to her in a dream to say that she’d passed.
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