Part 3, I'm Home, Section 1, p. 115 - 133 Summary

In first person narration in which he refers to himself as "you", Father is shocked when he is visited by a young woman named Hong Tae-hee, who is looking for Mom. Tae-hee reveals that Mom had been a regular visitor to the orphanage she runs (Hope House), that she had been giving large sums of money towards the maintenance of the orphanage, and that she (Tae-hee) had been reading Chi-hon's books to her. Father's considerations of all this surprising news are interrupted by various recollections - of Mom's insistence that she get control of the money being sent to her by Chi-hon and her siblings, and of Mom's arranging for them to commemorate Parents' Day even though none of their children got in touch. Father reflects on how trapped he felt by his...