Part 4, Another Woman, Section 1, p. 164 - 186 Summary

For the first few paragraphs of this section, it's not entirely clear who is narrating. The first person speaker is confused and uncertain, speaking of the living arrangements of a woman and her children, narration eventually revealing that the speaker is Mom, that the object of her attention is her daughter (who has three children), and that Mom is now in the form of a bird, sitting outside the daughter's house and watching events there. Mom describes her daughter's affection for birds, and how she buried a dead bird found by her eldest son (who is good in school and studies a lot). Mom also narrates a fight that takes place over the phone between her daughter and Chi-hon, who is planning to leave on a promotional tour for one of her books...