Summary

This chapter is entirely narrated in Crispin’s voice, most obviously indicated through a change in typeface. It opens with a scene printed in italics, in the omniscient third person narrator’s voice which has become the first person voice. The scene describes Miguel meeting Crispin in some sort of afterlife, or in Crispin’s mind. There, Miguel sees himself in the mirror as a younger version of Crispin.

This is followed by a narration in a third person, using the same typeface as excerpts from Crispin’s novels and other literary works. In this narration, Miguel survives his slip in the floodwaters, and reaches the children just as Sadie’s driver arrives. Then, an excerpt from Crispin’s novel Manila Noir describes the protagonist Antonio Astig being asked by his love interest to abandon his quest for vengeance.

In the third person narration...