Chapters 10 through 13 Summary

In Chapter 10, as the Kaira DeLeon show travels through Texas Kaira, desperate for company, leaves her own lavishly equipped bus to hang out with the band (all old time rock and rollers) in theirs. Their comments about Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin meet with confusion from Kaira, but when they start playing Joplin over the sound system, she immediately connects with the singer's raw, bluesy emotion. Meanwhile, the guys in the band drop heavy hints that El Genius is having an affair with Aileen, the tour manager. Kaira, who has been helped by Aileen in the past, finds the rumor hard to believe, but hopes that it were true so that her mother (married to El Genius) would get a divorce. In Houston, Kaira looks at Aileen, who is checking them all into their rooms, for signs of betrayal, but finds...