Summary

Annie continues the interview with Eric over dinner. As Eric talks more about Caleb and Camille’s work, it becomes evident to the reader that Caleb and Camille always referred to Annie and Buster as ‘Child A’ and ‘Child B’ respectively when discussing or writing about the performances. In the evening, Annie and Eric have sex. The next morning, Eric says that he is going to include their sexual encounter as part of the magazine article. Annie is understandably frustrated, and she worries that the article will further hurt her career. The narrative then shifts to 1988 to recount another Fang family performance piece. This piece entailed Buster dressing as a girl and entering a beauty pageant under a fake name. Buster was extremely resistant to the idea at first. However, once the pageant began, he found that he actually wanted to win. Buster did...