Centered mostly on a minuscule geographical area … and for a finite period of time, Gala succeeds in establishing the enormous perspective of man in the universe—perspective, that is, not place, although place helps provide the perspective, of course. Deulius constantly raises questions, often evoked by trying to make sense out of his daughter's congenital birth defect. Bowled over by his first good look at the Milky Way, and repeatedly amazed by it afterward, "What," he asks, "am I to make of that chunk of the universe in the context of Milk herself?" He can find no answer, and probably there is none, yet he continues to engage in "interrogative speculation." "Bold questions, yet somehow always askew or ill defined, come and go in my mind like sharks which cannot stop." Still the reunion is an unexpected success, far better than he dared hope. And the end is...