Book I Chapters 3 and 4 Summary

Claire reports to the Fish Hatchery, to her boss Dmitri. She learns she will be assigned a bicycle. While training, one of the women shows her how they inseminate the fish eggs and remove the dead ones so they don't contaminate the rest of the fish eggs. As Claire overhears other workers talking, she realizes that she will have a lot more freedom now than she did as a Birthmother.

Claire decides that she has to find a girl her age, Sophia, who was assigned to the Nurturing Center, where the babies are cared for, at the same time Claire received her assignment as Birthmother.

One day, Claire is having a picnic lunch with some of the other workers when they see a supply boat. A school age boy near them starts to talk about what he...