Summary

In the first section of Part I, "Relocations," the narrator, her husband, and their two children leave New York for Arizona. The couple met four years prior while working on a collective project recording a soundscape of all the languages in New York. The little girl is the narrator's daughter, and the boy is her husband's son. The couple's romance moved quickly and the two moved their families in together after a brief period of dating.

In the narrative present, the narrator takes an inventory of all the items in the car. She and her husband frequently retell the story of their beginning to the children. She recalls their first nights as a family together in their new apartment, the children's growing relationship, and the ease with which she and her husband become parents to both children...