Sorrow Floats Summary

John, Frank, Franny, Lilly and Win arrive in Vienna safely, not yet aware that their mother and Egg would die the following day on their own trip. They arrive at the hotel which is in a very obscure location and discover that the candy store next door has burned. There are no guests other than the prostitutes and the radicals. The room assigned to Egg is very small with no window and the children all predict Egg won't like it, but then agree that both Egg and Mary won't like Vienna at all. They arrive to find the bear in the lobby and soon discover that Freud is blind and that the bear is really a young woman named Susie dressed in a bear costume. In costume, Susie keeps order in the hotel. Susie has horrible acne scars and seems to...