Summary

The narrator kept walking. She went “down to the Thames promenade” (33). She watched the mudlarks hunt “for the objects the river” had coughed up (34). When she stopped walking, she “felt awful” (34). Because her mother had cerebral palsy, the narrator learned “to see the world in terms of accessibility and inaccessibility” (34). While riding an elevator called The Millennium Inclinator, she thought of her mother, the narrator felt invisible. When the doors opened, a little girl asked her name. The narrator said she was nameless. The child did not believe her.

The narrator hates “novels with unnamed narrators,” and “didn’t mean to write one” (36). She also “never meant to write” about a writer (36). The narrator was named after “a beloved cousin” and her “father’s sister,” both of whom were still alive when she was born (37).

On the Millennium Bridge, the narrator felt annoyed...