Summary

A flyer advertises a big show at a nightclub called Siberia.

In the section “Lizzy,” as Lester considers that going into a punk rock club might not be the best idea for him, he remembers Dodge telling him that Dodge and his friends had put on punk rock shows in Baghdad before the war. Gomez had put Lester in charge of watching Dodge after his incident with heat exhaustion. Because his mind was still muddled, Dodge had told Lester some things about his life before the war that Lester sensed he shouldn’t have known. Dodge had said that his father and brother were important in government, and that Dodge and his friends were running when he began working for the Americans.

Inside the club, Landry and Paul are onstage. Lester plants himself...