Summary

The narrator lists the men and woman with whom Le-a had both consensual and consensual sexual relations before she met Squanto. The one woman was an unpleasant encounter at 15-years-old with a desperate girl named Mona. When Mona slept, she slipped away in a taxi. The narrator describes the nature of time as the ebb and flow of waves, emphasizing that the past and the sins of ancestors “wash into now” (168). Fittingly, the next section shows a pregnant Mona Respects Nothing, drunk, lost, and, frozen, being found in Whiteclay and brought to the LOST Hospital by the owner of a soup kitchen owner.

Once at the hospital, Mona delivered twins and named them Jerusalem and Daniel. They were born sickly...