Summary

In the chapter “Sutu” Emerence continued to get better. The narrator worried because she knew that Emerence’s improvement was based on her lies. The people in the neighborhood had been looking for the cats but so far none had been found. Sutu and Adélka led a group that was discussing what should be done about Emerence if she was to return home. In the meantime, Viola had taken to roaming away and being gone for days. One day he did come running for the narrator and led her to a garden two streets over. When they arrived, he seemed apologetic as if what he had brought her to see was not there any more. The narrator suspected it was one of Emerence’s cats.

In one of the neighborhood meetings, Sutu announced to the crowd that she believed Emerence would...