Summary

Pages 205 – 217. In the hotel room as they’re getting ready to go to sleep, Alexi and Benny talk about Katherine, conversation revealing that Katherine knows she’s being watched by the FBI (keeping tabs on her the same way they kept tabs on Alexi before his arrest and imprisonment) Conversation also reveals that Benny is relieved to be spending time away from his mother, and that he’s curious about Alexi’s life in prison. But when he asks what it was like, Alexi shuts him down in exactly the way his father shut HIM down. This leads Alexi (and narration) to recall how hard he worked to gain his father’s affection and approval, but never felt like he succeeded.

The next day, Alexi wakes up with a feeling of optimism, taking Benny on a drive through wine country – the...