Summary

Part II: Launch begins with an explanation that she has no idea where she is, and unable to care what the other girls talk about, she thinks she will never be close to anyone again.

In Chapter 2/Landing, Jane feels different as she steps off the plane in Kenya, as though she is ready for new things. When she first meets Harry in Lana's driveway, Jane is unnerved by his stony look, and he surprises her when he kisses her cheek.

As they watch the sun set from the top of Ngong Hills, Jane informs Harry that she is going to Uganda to write about the children kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, though the topic is far from her normal subjects of desire and death. Lana and Pierre, a photographer, will accompany her, but when she confesses that Lana is still...