Summary

In Chapter 1 of the third section, “Winter,” it was the night before Thanksgiving and Jake had gone away with Simone to stay with her family. The narrator stayed in New York and went out with some other employees from the restaurant. She had unpleasant and unsatisfying sex with Will. Two days later, the narrator went to work really hungover for the first time and discovered that she had lost her shoes. Will complained about her disappearing after they had slept together and then helped her find her shoes. The narrator went to Park Bar with Sasha and Ariel and got really high on cocaine. Ariel got too drunk and the narrator took her home with her. They kissed in the back of a cab.

In Chapter 2, Simone and Jake returned from their Thanksgiving vacation and the narrator told Simone that she had missed her...