Summary

In Chapter 6, “Lampredotto,” a year into her sentence, Dorothy is still unsure what she regrets. She secretly knows that she would kill everyone she killed again (63). Marco is “the most important” and “most lasting” of all the men Dorothy was with (63). She met him “in Siena in 1983” during her “college semester abroad” (63). He had already finished his program but lingered in Siena. He was more agreeable than most Italian men. Dorothy was often followed by men while there. One night, she was raped while walking home. She never told Marco.

Because Dorothy never wanted her lovers to talk about her, she always found “compromising information” on them and blackmailed them (67). This was harder to accomplish with Marco. Then one day, she found a business card in the trash. The card suggested that Marco was really an Italian Jew from a...