Summary

Waking in the middle of the night, Nadia received a call from the hospital, imagining her father was dead, only to find out that he had been seriously injured when the weights he was lifting fell on his chest. She was with Zack, a white liberal from Maine she was dating who only referred to race casually and only if it felt oppressing. She had broken up Shadi and was stressed from her work in law school, where a casual relationship with minimal commitments, like the one with Zack, suited her. Before leaving for Oceanside, she was filled with guilt over the fact that she had kept minimal contact with her father over the years, only talking over the holidays. When she arrived at the hospital, he was weak and emotional at the sight of her, and she was comforted by Aubrey who arrived...