Summary

Chapter 37 is titled “The Long Night.” Bobi contemplated suicide as an adult but something told her to wait for the joy and she eventually found a moment that justified that, with more of those moments following. She noted that she made the decision to do the best for her son though she did not know how to be a good parent. She became interested in the poet Rumi and “began praying in a new way, to a god who was a mix between my childhood understanding and this mystical, poetic understanding” (278). When Orion was seven, Bobi had a daughter she named Rose. She gave birth at a hospital this time because the midwife was concerned that the baby had stopped growing around eight months. She hated the birthing process this time, knowing the doctors would not allow labor to go on for...