Chapter 3 Summary

The drive to Georgia takes the Takeshima family through several large cities, including St. Louis where they stop so the adults can pick up a few supplies. Lynn and Katie are told to stay at the car. To pass the time, they plan the future. Lynn says she would like Katie to go to college where she attends graduate school so they can get an apartment together. Then they sit on the hood of the car and swing their legs, acting like the women their mother calls floozies. They stop before their mother comes back, they do not want to make their mother upset or cause their father to worry.

Uncle Katsuhisa stops in Nashville to buy a chess set at a pawnshop when they start out again. He is determined to beat Lynn at chess.

They stop at a hotel that night...