Section 6 Summary

This section, which follows the very long section before it, is the shortest section in the book. It takes place four weeks after the accident and begins with a question: "Who is Sarah?"

Kathleen is visiting the protagonist and has asked him this question because she heard him say the name Sarah when he was in a coma, the day of the accident. He tells her that Sarah is his mother. When he was a young boy, he tells Kathleen, a teacher told him that three days after he died, an angel would come to him and ask him his name. She told him that when that happened, he must say, "I am Eliezer, son of Sarah." If he forgets to say both his own name and his mother's, the teacher tells him, then his spirit will be condemned to wander forever in...