Summary

Day narrates Chapter 29 as June leans over him in the street. He reminisces on his past, his family, and June, and then loses his memory completely. He sees his mother appear above him, stands up, and walks towards her. He feels his heart stop beating and fill with warmth as he embraces his mother. She tells him that his father and John are well and love him. She tells him to go back to Eden as medics lift him onto a stretcher. He asks to stay with her, but she tells him that he belongs on “the other side of the looking glass” (341).

Chapter 30 is narrated by June three weeks after Day was shot. She stays by his side in the hospital while he is in a coma. Anden has returned from the warfront and citizens line the...