Part Three: Chapters 32 - 37 Summary

Rosina and Genet return from the North a few months after departing. Marion doesn't know how to feel. He is overwhelmingly pleased that Genet is back, but she seems different, and Rosina complains about how all the boys are chasing her. A few days later, while Marion and Shiva are walking home from school, they meet Tsige, the woman whose baby died at Missing - although by this time, it is a few years later - and she clearly wants to sleep with Marion as a way of thanking him. Marion refuses, much to Shiva's befuddlement. A few weeks later, Marion runs into the nurse probationer, who he had been avoiding since her come-on; she flushes when she sees him and thanks him for joining her in bed the other night. She says she enjoyed it thoroughly...