Summary

In Chapter 20, the narrator describes the bank robber’s young daughters, who they call monkey and frog, and the daughter calls the robber an elk. The robber and their other parent recently divorced, as the other parent was having an affair with the robber’s boss. The robber must leave their apartment and loses their job, and does not make a scene to avoid giving their children chaos.

They sleep in their old apartment’s storeroom and find a neighbor’s old toy gun. They manage to find an apartment to lease but can only afford one month’s rent, and their new job withholds wages for the first month. Without a home, the lawyers of the other parent told the robber they could lose custody of their daughters. The bank refuses a loan and the robber gets the bad idea to use the...