Summary

The second part of Monkey Beach begins with a lesson in contacting the dead. The directives are given from a more omniscient narrator: Lisa's first-person narration follows on the next page, and the two voices are noticeably distinct from one another. Given the fact that it is "contacting the dead, lesson one" this passage has a quality of foreshadowing (139).

Back in Lisa's first-person, past-tense narration, she remembers the day of Mick's funeral. One of Mick's friends from his "A.I.M,'ster days", Barry, whom, after smelling his Sagos tobacco, Lisa remembers meeting as a child, asks her to take a walk with him. He shows Lisa a picture of his sister, Cookie, and Mick on their wedding day. Lisa realizes that this is the Cookie who Mick was talking about in his sleep on the...