Summary

In Part III, Chapter 10, David travels to Los Angeles for the campaign. His friend from high school, Brandon, picks him up at LAX and takes him to a flea market. David finds a stand selling old photographs. He studies each one carefully, particularly transfixed by an image of a family at dinner featuring a Black father and his lighter-skinned relatives. The others he finds fascinate him too and he cannot help imagining his own family photographs sold after he dies.

Meanwhile, the campaign tries to deal with the fallout concerning the candidate’s relationship with his pastor. After the press releases “a video of the pastor saying “‘God damn America,’” the public starts questioning the candidate’s Christian faith (148). The campaign ultimately resolves the issue and the candidate proves his “ability to escape, purely verbally, this trap of this pastor’s manufacture” (150).

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