Summary

Elaine is back in Toronto for a retrospective of her art. To save money, she is staying in the art studio of her former husband Jon. She visits the gallery that will be the site of her retrospective. There is a poster with her picture on it, advertising the exhibit. Someone has drawn a mustache on her face, and she decides it is a good thing because having her picture in a place where it can be defaced means she has made something of herself after all. She wonders if Cordelia will see the poster and recognize her.

In another transition/flashback, the reader is taken back further in time to Elaine’s childhood when her entomologist father takes his family for entire summers driving from one place to another in the northern Canadian forests. In winters they live in apartments in towns or cities...