Summary

In “May,” on the day of the carnival, Harri watched everyone dance in the rain. He liked the men on stilts and the jugglers. When it was Dance Club’s turn, Harri hoped Miquita would fall. Lydia got all of “the moves right” (108).

Harri won binoculars with his raffle ticket (108). When he looked through them, he saw his pigeon “sitting on the roof” (109). Everyone’s mood changed when a police van passed.

Agnes loved that Lydia “kept her parrot costume on all day” (109). Agnes could now say everyone’s name. She liked saying Harri’s name best.

When someone smashed and graffitied the church windows, church was canceled. “It wasn’t [Harri’s] fault they ruined the church” (113). He would tell the boys about God if he were “in the gang” (113). When Harri asked Lydia about the bloody clothes again, she said it was...