Chapter 4 Summary

Readers are back in the present, and Codi is arriving at Emelina's house, where she will be living in the guesthouse while she is in Grace. Emelina has five boys ranging from six months old to a teenager, and her husband works for the railroad.

While Codi has a medical degree, she quit practicing medicine because of a crisis trying to deliver a baby, where she lost her nerve. Codi thinks of Hallie and her mission to Nicaragua to participate in a revolution of co-op farms and literacy crusades and their lives together. Hallie had worked for the Extension Service in Tucson and is an expert gardener. Codi tries to reassure herself that Hallie will be all right. She believes that she will not survive if anything happens to her sister.

Chapter 4 Analysis

As the story moves along, readers see the relationship between...