Summary

After returning from the cathartic, healing and difficult experience at Kripalu, Stacy and Jayson decide to move out of the apartment where they lived with Greta. Stacy takes the lead on a new apartment search. While looking at apartment listings, the question of having a new child wordlessly arises; Stacey and Jayson treat it gingerly and in roundabout ways. As he writes, “One night, while discussing the move, Stacy said it: ‘We can’t do it all over again here,’” clearly meaning raising another child (128). Jayson admits that he knows in his heart that he wants to be a father again.

Just as they are beginning their search for a new apartment in earnest, the New York Times releases a report about the crumbling infrastructure that killed Greta, concluding that the city’s building inspectors were failing to perform...