Chapter 5 Summary

This seems too easy to Bobby and leaves him with little material for his article, but Krishna is waiting in the lobby and presses him to meet a friend who will explain the truth about Das. Bobby agrees to go with him to a coffee shop at 9:30 PM. In the room, a beautiful, young stranger, Kamakhya Bharati, holds Victoria while Amrita is in the bathroom. Hearing that colleagues have communicated with her long-missing uncle, Das, Kamakhya has come to ask if Bobby has seen him. She arranges to go sari shopping next day with Amrita.

After dinner, Amrita tells Bobby about how everything in India seems simultaneously alien and familiar, frightening and seductive. She tells of seeing a ghost - of herself - on her last night before emigrating. At 9:30 Bobby goes to the lobby, where he meets Krishna, distraught over the death...