Summary

Chapter 30 returns to Eunice in 1989. Godfrey is in a nursing home and Grace is trying to get Godfrey to remember who Bomber is. Godfrey does. Portia arrives and insists that Godfrey should know who she is, but Godfrey does not. Bomber does not like how Portia behaves and treats everyone. Godfrey tells Eunice in confidence that he feels certain Portia is his daughter, but he feels there should be a perk in his disease.

Chapter 31 returns to Christmas and Laura and Freddy have spent the night together. Freddy tells Laura that he was too embarrassed to kiss a girl until his late teens because of his cleft palette. On New Year’s Eve, Laura examines a wooden item and cannot figure out its purpose. It belonged to Edna and is a type of talisman used for protection if kept in the center of...