Summary

Aaliya decided she needs to get out of the house. As she walks through the city, she wonders why her mother screamed as she did. She walks past a Pizza Hut that had formerly been a record shop. It was by buying record albums that Aaliya taught herself how to listen to music. She started out with Chopin. Because she didn’t know anything about music she decided to choose albums bearing the Deutsche Grammophon label. She could buy one a week with her meager salary. Although the owner of the record store never said much to her, she felt he approved her purchases when he grunted his approval. When she bought her first Gould album, the store owner’s eyebrows shot up. Aaliya was pleased. The music had been her only luxury. She’d collected most of the books she had by...