Summary

Chapter 17 shifts to 2010. Clemantine considers the ways in which trauma alienates the individual. To understand her experience, she knew she had to connect with her mother, but was afraid to do so.

While at Yale, Clemantine began noticing her resemblance to her parents. Through several courses, she began to see her memories as a path to believing what she had experienced (221). A class on W. G. Sebald particularly altered Clemantine's perspective on herself. His writings gave her license to remember. That summer, she worked for Google and visited Disneyland. While there, she felt connected to someone else's imagination, the assemblage of another person's self (227).

Chapter 18 details the events of 2011 - 2014. When Clemantine was 26, she traveled to Kigali "for an event to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide" (229). She noticed how the country had divided time by the genocide. During the remembrance...