Summary

In Chapter 8, which returns to Mireille’s first-person point of view, Mireille refused to cry.

Mireille remembered the trips that she and her family made to Haiti when she was a child. They usually stayed with Lola, Mireille’s mother’s sister, who was rich. There was a guesthouse for them to stay in and a pool. She remembered that in Haiti, her father played with her and her sister, Mona, and bought them sweets. He was always serious in the United States. Mireille had wished she could find the Haiti of her childhood again, but she knew after the kidnapping that she never would.

In Chapter 9, as Mireille thought about how much she missed her husband, she remembered how they met.

Michael asked Mireille out on a date when he came to her office at graduate school for a blind date...