Summary

Page 54 starts from Yahaira’s perspective saying, “Some people play chess, but I played [italicized] chess” (54). She talks about how successful she was at playing, winning tournaments, titles, and acclaim, until last year. She explains how last year changed things for her for chess and her as a person. She explains, “& if the game taught me one thing, it’s once you lift a pawn off the board, you have to move it forward. It cannot return to where it was” (55). She explains how her father was not a good chess player. While he was in the “DR” they did not often speak except that she wanted to reach him last summer after “The Thing That Happened” (56). She tried to reach her father, but no answer on his phone or response to her email. She dug around and went through her father’s...