Summary

Annelise feels seasick as she and Walter travel together with Ruth. She spends the “first day lurching, swaying, holding on for dear life. Every step she takes is a pull to the water, a battle against her own solid, landlocked will” (111). Annelise notices how severely affected by the ship she is when “She glances in the mirror in their little cabin…and sees a reflection of her face so startling it almost quells the nausea…her skin is green, a pallor she has never seen before, as if she has been drained of color” (111).

Annelise and Walter reminisce about the discrimination they faced when they remained in Germany and the hurt of being turned on by their former friends and community members. They discuss their hopes for Annelise’s parents’ visas and pray their family will be reunited in the United States soon. Annelise...