A part in the book that was puzzling  is when at the end she found out her parents were dead but it is hard to trust that when they said Sura was dead but she was not actually dead. I think that her parents aren't dead just because the Branch keeps so many secrets and tells so many lies that it is hard to trust them or anyone. That is why I think that her parents are still alive and that the branch either has them or they faked there death and have been on the run since the insident at the O'Brien house.