Summary

Part Seven is titled “Congo.” Chapter Twenty-seven opens years later. Though Sophie is now an adult, she still has one of the sneakers she wore during her trip across the country during the war. She sometimes offered up the full story of that summer when someone asked about the sneaker, but she found that they were uncomfortable by the details. She later began saying only that it is the shoe she wore during the war.

Sophie is headed back to the Congo now, this time as a college graduate. She didn't leave the Congo after the war but attended an American school there. She did go to the United States for college and now has a plan to establish a company that will aid the country's economy. She wants to make the country more accessible to tourists as one part of her plan...