I hadn't even believed this address existed.
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 47)

Importance: Several years after her affair with the lover ends, the narrator visits the desert with another man. During the trip, she wanders off alone in search of the lover's last address. She walks for miles in the heat until she finds the location. Once she finally arrives, however, the place does not align with her imagined version of it. This moment reveals the disparity between the narrator's emotional processing of reality, and reality itself.

Maybe I did not want to have to choose a place to start, maybe I wanted all the parts of the story to be told at the same time.
-- Narrator (Pages 1 - 47)

Importance: After the bookshop man gives the narrator a bitter cup of tea, she wonders if the experience could mark the end of her story with the lover, and the end of the novel she is writing about it. In the...