Summary

In Chapter 54, Mr. Munchie had agreed the emus could stay in his pasture and Liz started trying to befriend them both. At Aunt Al’s Bean learned that Truman wanted to know if he married Kim-An, his Vietnamese girlfriend, if her parents could come as well. Aunt Al had told Truman she’d do whatever it took to get them to America. She believed family was that important. After breakfast Bean and Joe went to the dump. Joe said he was still enlisting even though the war was going badly. He said they couldn’t stop fighting just because they were losing. He also said he would welcome Truman’s girlfriend.

On their way back from the dump Dog peed on one of the tires of Maddox’s car when they passed it in a parking lot. Maddox saw what happened and came...