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Summary
Yuki receives a phone call from her aunt, telling her that her father has been in a car accident. He dies shortly thereafter. She then sees a typist at The Paper reading a magazine with Odile on the cover. Yuki is now twenty-three. She talks with Edison about feeling like a failure as an artist. As Edison walks Yuki back to The Paper after lunch, they encounter a display of televisions in a shop window showing the evacuation of the American embassy in Saigon. An American soldier is pulling a white man to safety in a helicopter, leaving behind a sea of imperiled Vietnamese. The sight makes her angry, then anxious. She fights back a panic attack, and flees from a worried Edison to go swimming at the YMCA.
In the next chapter, Yuki continues to struggle with her art...
(read more from the 1975, Caput Mortum, 1978, Ivory Black (Yuki) Summary)
This section contains 763 words (approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page) |
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