Summary

At the start of Chapter 3, Augustus “discovered that the women he loved were great-nieces of the old woman eagerly slaughtered by his father” (43). Augustus was also told that the twins’ mother was Blue Prairie Woman/Other Side of the Earth, but he did not at this point realize the connection to his father’s adopted child, Matilda. Still confused between his two wives, Augustus had two children with each. A daughter, Peace, and 3 sons, Charles (called Charlie), Arthur (called Booch), and Shawano, named after the twins’ father. Once Peace was born, Augustus “came to the exciting conclusion that she consistently called Zosie Nimaamaa, and Mary Inninoshenh. My mother and my auntie. The spell was broken” (43). Augustus was finally able to distinguish between the twins, but he pretended otherwise in order to avoid having to choose which one to truly marry.

The narrator...