Book 1, Chapter 8 Summary

Because school does not start for two months, Sophie spends her first couple of months in America going with her mother to work. Her day job is cleaning up after bedridden people at a nursing home. Her night job is looking after an old woman. Sometime near the end of the summer, Sophie and her mother have a serious conversation. Her mother tells her the story of how she met Marc, and asks Sophie if she has been good. When Sophie nods, her mother goes on to explain that when she was a girl, her mother used to test them to see if they were still virgins by putting her finger inside their private parts to see if they were still whole. Then she says her mother stopped testing her early, and she asks Sophie if she knows why. When Sophie...