Chapter 56, Selected Snippets from the Individual Resident-Informal-Interface Moments of D.W. Gately, and Chapter 57, 11 November - Year of the Adult Depend Undergarment Summary

Don Gately sees several patients during his tenure at the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House. The patients talk about people they've seen and that they know, including their sponsors. They complain about other patients who are annoying them, and about living at the house. Orin Incandenza has sex with a Swiss hand model in a hotel room. Orin had just driven Helen Steeply to the airport, and met the girl there. She asked him to sign a football for her son. Orin realizes he hasn't seen the men in wheelchairs since the day before he met the woman, but...