Summary

Chapter 56 – Nadia is feeling emotionally exhausted and she would like to be alone, but she spends time with Kache anyway, as they are snowed in. Finally, he goes out to shovel and Nadia looks at pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge on her computer. She thinks that her grandmother, out of all of her family members, might understand her. She reads another one of Elizabeth's journal entries in which Elizabeth admitted that Glenn was always jealous of Kache, as well as afraid for him because of the violent things he had seen in Vietnam.

Chapter 57 – Snag realizes she has missed the last two chamber meetings about the caboose's fate, and that she does not even care. She goes swimming at the gym and thinks about Agafia again, the Russian woman from the beach, wondering if Nadia knows her.

Chapter 58 – Hearing a shot fired...