Summary

Part II, Chapter 15 – This chapter recalls events of Tin Win's earlier life. The next four years pass. Tin Win and Mi Mi continue to spend as much time as possible with each other. They become inseparable. A longing and a desire within her have awakened. She has never known the feelings before. Tin Win teaches her how to trust. He is the only one who knows she is humiliated to have to crawl. They swim naked, and she wraps her legs around him, telling him she cannot bear to be without him.

Part II, Chapter 16 – A heat wave comes to Kalaw. U May’s health rapidly declines. As U May nears death, it makes Tin Win think about his own mortality. He fears not only his own death, but U May’s as well. Tin Win and Mi Mi...