Summary

Jamie, a boy who lived in the same apartment building in Chicago where Rachel and her family had lived, is the focus of this section of the book. The chapter is not narrated by Jamie but it is told from the viewpoint of a third-person narrator with an emphasis on Jamie’s perspective. Jamie saw Robbie when Robbie fell off the roof. He thought Robbie was a bird and went downstairs to see if he could identify what kind of bird he was.

Jamie had memorized questions from a Peterson Field Guide that he had stolen from the library to help him identify birds. When he reached the courtyard, he saw there was no bird, but instead a mother, girl, boy and a baby lying there. The girl had landed on her brother’s body. Jamie stayed and watched until the...