Chapter 7 Summary

Nick brings Wani to a men-only bathhouse, where men are laying around a pond and jetty naked. There is an old wooden raft in the middle of the pond where men socialize. They meet a man named Rick, who Wani wants to invite home for a threesome. Nick follows Rick to the toilet and asks him over, but he has Rick tell Wani that he has a girlfriend.

Chapter 7 Analysis

Nick is disappointed that it is early in the season for the bathhouse because he wants Wani to have fun. Nick recalls the Oxford days when he lusted after Wani, and some of the snobbier students would make fun of Wani for being a Lebanese grocer's son. Nick is jealous that Wani wants to invite Ricky over, but he does it because he loves Wani. Nick is cutting lines of cocaine on the...