Summary

At the start of Chapter 6, the narrator announces her plan to move with her parents to Korea, in order to care for her father. This will put a hold on her work towards her thesis, but she hopes that her father will be able to help her continue her work independently. The arrival of the moving crew brings a feeling of finality to the family’s home in Michigan. This calls the narrator to recall a story involving her own mother, and her mother’s sister (the narrator’s aunt). When they were children, playing in the woods in Korea, the mother’s sister discovered an unexploded bomb in the middle of the forest. This anecdote has become a lesson in forgiveness within the family. The narrator’s aunt, when she had gone to college, was captured by North Koreans. Although she was...