Book 2, Part 8 Summary

Sabbath's car reaches the sea shore. He is seeking the cemetery where his mother was laid to rest. He finds a supermarket in its place and asks the manager where they put all the graves. Sabbath finds no answers there and searches the area, but he cannot recall the name of the cemetery. It is only through the sheer luck of stumbling upon a funeral procession in traffic that he manages to locate it. Sabbath parks and approaches the office, where he finds two tethered dogs and several men wearing baseball caps. Sabbath approaches the boss, Mr. Crawford and tells him he needs to purchase a gravesite near his parents' graves.

Crawford tells Sabbath his timing is bad. He has a funeral starting in just a moment. Sabbath can see that the hearse, the mourners and the rabbi have arrived, but...