Chapter 3 Summary

Paul Guber, victim of the congressman's attack, regains consciousness in a hospital bed only to see a lawyer in a three piece suit standing at the end of the bed. His name is Mordecai, and he is Guber's fiancee's cousin. Mordecai is eager to take the case. Paul worries that his fiancee learned the true story of his beating-that it happened in a strip club rather than outside a synagogue as his buddies told her. Paul is relieved to learn that they know nothing of the strip club.

Erin's mother, married to her fifth husband, lives in California and writes Erin twice weekly accounts of her shopping sprees. Each of her letters ends with a plea to Erin to move to California and live with them. Erin's mother does not approve of her dancing. Erin, likewise, does not approve of her mother marrying...