Summary

Chapters 28 – Chapter 28 tells the story of Sammy Chabon, the narrator’s great uncle on his father’s side, who founded a successful company that sold plastic novelties, mostly miniature plastic skeletons for entertainment and educational purposes. To cut costs, he opened a factory floor at Wallkill Prison with inmates as laborers. On a visit to Wallkill, he saw the grandfather and Dr. Storch launching their model rocket outdoors under prison supervision, so he made a deal with the two men to sell the rocket as a product in his company.

Chapter 29 – At the narrator’s mother’s house in San Francisco, the narrator’s mother shows him an old photo album she found while going through the grandfather’s things. It contains photos of herself, her mother, and the grandfather from the 1940s and 1950s. However, many of the photos are missing, with...