Summary

Chapter 5

Sepha wakes up after his night with Ken and Joe at the strip club. He realizes that he’s been wasting his life, and he doesn’t want to just drift through the rest of his existence. He remarks that things hadn’t been the same since Judith and Naomi left the neighborhood. He leaves early to open the store, but when he arrives he finds a letter from a law firm, informing him that he has 30 days to vacate the store. He starts looking around the store, realizing how much it has fallen apart, how out of date the few remaining products are. He calls Ken and tells him what happened. Ken says it has seemed like this was what Sepha always wanted, since he hasn't been taking care of his store.

A tourist couple comes in, and Sepha tells them...