Chapter 2 Summary

Father and Uncle Katsuhisa spend the day before the move loading boxes into the truck. Uncle Katsuhisa sees Lynn and Katie play soldier with the chess set and boasts that he is the best chess player in the world. Then he challenges Lynn to a game. Lynn beats him in fifteen minutes, only to have him challenge her again and again despite the work that waits to be done. Uncle Katsuhisa is not happy to be beat in chess by a little girl. After he loses three times, he stands and spits on the tree.

That night, the men sit outside and talk until very late. Katie lies in bed and listens; she wonders what it is they talk about. She realizes she misses her stuffed toy, a mix between rabbit and dog that her mother has packed for the move. She cannot...