Summary

From Annabelle Rosenmerck to Harry Rosenmerck – New York, September 3, 2009. Annabelle tells Harry that he is right that the family should not tell each other important things over the phone. She tells him a few truths: that Monique is alone and in bad shape; that David has disappeared without a word; and that she is pregnant. She sends him a sonogram. “That’s the other truth that I kept silent in Israel and over the damned telephone” (135). She then says that Monique sometimes gets better from just touching her stomach.

From Harry Rosenmerck to Annabelle Rosenmerck – Tel Aviv, September 5, 2009. Harry says he knew that Annabelle was pregnant by the look in her eyes when she arrived. He worries that the father is “the old married man who didn’t know how to love you” (136), and hopes she fell in love in Nazareth. He...