Chapters 10-11 Summary

1999. Now Moushumi is the one who feels out of place. Moushumi won a fellowship to Paris but turned it down without telling Gogol about it. Moushumi is discontented as a result. When Gogol and Moushumi celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Moushumi is unhappy with the entire evening, beginning with the gift Gogol gave her, the restaurant where they dine, and the time they spend alone. One morning at the university where she works as a teacher's assistant in the French department, Moushumi is sorting the mail for a secretary who mysteriously passed away and finds a resume from a man she once knew. This man, Dimitri, is a friend she knew in high school whom she had an unsatisfied crush on. Moushumi writes down his number, unsure what she intends to do with it.

Moushumi goes home that night and searches...