Chapter 5, Part 2 Summary

In third person past tense narration, Lee, Viv and Henry walk up to the shack in the woods where they have arranged to meet Hank and Joe Bob once they've finished with the hunt. As they walk, Viv reflects on the many walks she took to and from the shack when she was first married, enjoying the quiet, the solitude, the songs of the birds, and the feeling of being pregnant. When the three of them arrive at the shack, they discover that Hank has set a fire for them and left the sack of sandwiches Viv had prepared hanging where a raccoon could reach it. Henry chases off the raccoon, Viv puts on a pot of coffee, Lee sits by the fire, Viv sits beside him, and as Henry starts into a long and rambling reminiscence of his younger hunting...