Summary

This chapter starts out with a discussion of the influences on Sunny’s life. Sunny reads French from her mother’s cookbooks. She tries to understand her mother through what her mother wrote in the cookbooks, but the notes do not give her much information. They are written in purple ink. By eleven, Sunny was cooking most of the family meals. Fish remained elusive to her because they had little access to it on the ranch.

Sunny and Stryker learn that they will each take a trip abroad: Stryker with Rocky and Sunny with Cas. The two children write letters to one another, and it is on these trips that they both realize that they are rich. Sunny eats a lot of different types of fish on the trip and she documents her journey in her notebooks.

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