Beautiful and True Summary

Mom makes spaghetti and Ron joins them. He has lost his wife and daughter in a car accident and met Oskar's Mom at a group for people who have lost family. He cannot recall why he was not in the car and cries all the time. Mom tucks Oskar in at 9:36, but he gets up quietly and meets the renter. They pull up next to the cemetery and hop the fence and look for Dad's tombstone and take turns digging. Oskar thinks about how many things have died since the first creature is born. Gerald sees they have made little progress and takes over. The coffin is wet, cracked, and not sealed. Oskar is glad that Dad is not in there. Oskar's idea of digging up the coffin originally surprises the renter. Oskar wants to do it because Dad...