Summary

Brendan attends a meeting of the Autism Awareness Network because he wants to see Amber again. A few of the students give presentations about their autistic siblings, and then Brendan talks about his autistic half brother Jon-Jon. Brendan talks about how Jon-Jon sometimes suffers extreme emotional breakdowns. He talks about when his father, stepmother, and Jon-Jon came to campus to visit him for parents weekend, and Jon-Jon had an emotional episode after seeing an airplane fly overhead, as Jon-Jon does not like airplanes. The narrative then shifts to Eve, who goes to a bar with Margo and some of the other students from the gender studies class after a class session one evening. Two of the other students are Julian Spitzer and an Iraq War veteran named Dumell. Margo talks to Eve and admits that her mother—now deceased—did not approve of...