Summary

In the chapter titled "Happy New Year?" Mima says her goodbyes to everyone including Sam and Fito. Sal notes that she is leaving the world in the old way and that old way is dying as well.

In the chapter tiled "Night," everyone is silent on the way home, but Sal feels like at least now he can whistle in the dark.

In the chapter titled "Thursday. Two o'clock in the Morning," Mima dies.

In the chapter titled "Gone," Mima's body is taken away. Sal finds his father sobbing in her room, and he holds his father in his arms.

In the chapter titled "Grief," Sal's father is active in doing what one has to do when one's mother dies. Sam drives to a farm that Mima had once taken him to. He falls on his knees, takes...