Summary

Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia spend their last full day in New York at Coney Island, where Ina asks Evelyn to share what she has written for the monologue the trip was meant to inspire. Evelyn instead delivers a raw letter addressed to her sisters, shifting from their shared project about family history into a direct account of what she resents, fears, and cannot forgive, and the outpouring ends with the sisters holding her as she screams on the beach. Ina returns to Stockholm with a lingering certainty that Evelyn will not come back with them.

The narrative then turns to a daytime gathering after Emma’s death, where friends and family drink sparkling wine, perform small rituals of comfort, and circle guilt, including the narrator’s belief that everyone blames everyone else for not preventing Emma’s suicide. Soon after, Anastasia and Ina discover...