Summary

Chapter 6: Townie opens with Sin-Jun being taken to the ER. Mrs. Morino stopped Lee and Martha as they were going into the auditorium to attend a Wednesday lecture. Lee didn’t understand at first that Mrs. Morino was trying to tell her that Lee had taken pills on purpose and that she wanted Lee to go to the hospital to see Sin-Jun. On the ride to the hospital Mrs. Morino asked Lee about Sin-Jun’s life, if she’d ever been sad or threatened to hurt herself. Since Lee no longer roomed with Sin-Jun she wondered by Mrs. Morino was asking her instead of Clara.

As soon as they stepped off the elevator on the floor of Sin-Jun’s hospital room Lee could hear wailing. In her room Sin-Jun appeared to be ignoring Clara who was sitting next to her making the wailing...