Part 3, I'm Home, Section 2, p. 133 - 164 Summary

Father recalls how Mom spent large amounts of money on beautiful burial clothes (the nicest clothes she would ever have, she said), and wanted him to die first. His thoughts are interrupted by the arrival of two little girls who Mom had taken care of and fed when their own mother saw that she (Mom) could be taken advantage of. As he prepares rice using a rice cooker he has no idea how to run, he reflects on what happened the day Mom got lost at Seoul Station, recalling how he always walked faster than her in spite of her begging him not to. After the girls go, he weeps heavily, narration commenting that he had never wept during any of the other traumas he suffered in his life, realizing how badly he...