Summary

Page 248 starts from Camino’s perspective. When she gets home from school she has a notification on her tablet, a message from Yahaira with many questions all italicized, and saying they should video chat. Camino tells Tia she reached out to Yahaira. Camino starts crying, as Tia soothes her. She responds to Yahaira, “Hello. Yes. We should talk. [all italicized]” (252).

Page 253 changes to Yahaira’s perspective as she tells the reader how Papi taught her to play chess. She repeats the phrase “Papi taught me every piece” as the first line of the second third and fourth stanzas. She thinks about how Papi taught her every piece has a place, and purpose, and the squares do not overlap. She thinks, “& I know now, Papi could not move between two families'' (253). That is why she thinks he would “glide from family to family” without...