Part 4, Chapters 6 and 7 Summary

In Chapter 6, Min Foo's husband Hakim leaves Joey and Lateesha with Rebecca while he takes Min Foo into the hospital to have her baby. During her day with the children, Rebecca has an opportunity to reflect on how small and uninformed she thinks her life has become since her days of involvement with student activism and with academic research. Meanwhile, and after a short labor, Min Foo has a baby boy. Following a visit to the hospital to see her new grandchild, Rebecca returns home and finds a message on her answering machine from Will, which she deletes. In the few days following the birth, Rebecca deals with NoNo (fussing about how she's going to be a good mother to Peter) and LaVon (Lateesha's jazz-musician father), and goes to the library to pick up some research/reading material related...