Book 5, What We Carried Out (pages 440-506) Summary

Adah is losing her slant. She is in medical school now and has befriended a neurologist who believes that an injury to the brain as early as Adah's should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. She submitted her body to an experimental program, mostly to prove the man wrong. For six months, he had her stop walking altogether. Now, Adah finds that she can toddle in a straight line.

Leah is in Atlanta with Anatole and their son Pascal. She is pregnant with another child. Leah is taking classes and the family is making an attempt to become Americans, but Adah thinks that it won't last. Adah finds a kindred spirit in Anatole, both of them marked. They see a good deal of Mother. She moved last year to an...