Summary

Part 2 covered the years 1932 – 1934 and takes place in Washington, D.C. Harrison was sent by his mother to live with his father in the United States. He took a train across the Mexican border up to Washington D.C. Harrison’s father met him at the train station and called him Harry, which became the name most often used for the narrator while he lived in the United States. It quickly transpired that Harry’s father did not intend for them to live together. Instead, Harry was enrolled at a military boarding school called Potomac Academy.

At school, Harry befriended another boy named Billy Boorzai, nicknamed Bull’s Eye. Bull’s Eye was employed by the school in a menial capacity to help pay for his tuition and Harry often joined him on errands into the city to purchase food and other supplies for...