"Do You Know Where I Am?" Summary

David, the narrator, meets and falls in love with Sharon - another Native American - at the first social mixer of their freshman year at a Catholic college in Seattle. As the only Native American Catholics for miles around, the two figure that they were destined for each other. David has a white mother who is a corporate attorney and a Spokane Indian father named Marvin who died when David was a baby. Both David and Sharon went to private schools, became National Merit Scholars and are in the English honors department in college. They frequently quote literary classics to each other and sometimes sneak into each other's dormitory rooms to make love despite the possibility of expulsion for "moral violations."

One day while walking by a creek on campus, David...