Summary

Mira’s father found it easy to love his daughter. A father’s love “is a debt the child can never repay” (175). Even if the daughter accepts his lessons, their relationship is imbalanced (175). The father can feel betrayed by the daughter’s need to live her own life. The daughter can never fix “turn back” once she becomes a woman (176). Mira always thought of his loneliness. This is how she got trapped in the leaf.

In Part Seven, Annie lives in “a small town” where she helps people “repair their collective delusions” (181). Hearing that Annie is a fixer upsets Mira. Because Annie does not have a family to tell her a fixer is “the wrong thing to be,” Mira decides to tell her (181). She is Annie’s family.

Mira travels to Annie’s new city. As she drives...