Summary

In Chapter VIII the narrator tells how in October of 2012 his father saw a patient, a 26-year-old pregnant woman named Christine Langford, for a heart condition. Sikander advises Christine to stop taking her prescription of propranolol due to potential medical complications it may have. Christine takes his advice and dies two weeks later.

The narrator then describes an occurrence in 2017 when he receives a call that his father was being detained at the police station in Milwaukee. The narrator drives from Chicago to Milwaukee after learning that his drunk father had been detained while leaving a casino before he could get into his car. The narrator then interjects a description of how he met his half-sister, to whom he gives the pseudonym “Melissa” (264). The narrator discovers Melissa at a strip club and later finds a photo of his...