Summary

In Chapter 61, Sunny is living in Mexico when he discovers a glossy profile of the elusive artist Ilan de Toorjen Foss and realizes Ilan’s work has continued to shadow Sonia’s life. The article and its images revive Sunny’s sense that what happened in India did not end when he left, and he begins to picture a reunion with his mother even as he feels pulled toward unfinished obligations.

In Chapter 62, Sonia’s New York life collapses further under work, money pressure, and the aftermath of her assault, and she makes small, humiliating decisions to keep going. Public catastrophe breaks into private catastrophe as the world changes around her, and her own family crisis demands that she return to India. In Chapter 63, Babita’s isolation in Goa hardens into suspicion, and even her daily routines feel like a siege as she tries...