Summary

In Chapter 13, Fife is aware that Malcolm is not interested in Fife’s pre-Canada past. Now, instead of trying to persuade Fife into talking about his film career, he asks Fife to talk about society in the U.S. and Canada during the Vietnam War. Fife replies that he was briefly friends with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (originally Bobby Zimmerman) before the two of them were famous musicians and anti-war activists. Fife then pauses to think aloud about why he is so determined to tell his life story before it dies, and to have it recorded, and to have Emma hear it. In Chapter 14, Fife continues to tell his story where he had previously left it. After driving out of Boston, he eventually arrived in Strafford, Massachusetts, the small town where he was born and raised. As Fife drove through the town, he...