Summary

In “You Almost Ran into Me, Mr. Crazypants” (125), Mina moved from her hotel in Skala Sikamineas to a Mytilene hotel closer to Moria. When she reached the hotel, she almost collided with the writer, who was leaving in a Volkswagen.

In “How Not to Treat Your Child After an Accident” (127), Mina recalls a time when her mother hit another car and blamed her because she had been laughing at Mazen’s jokes, saying that she was “an accident and a horrible one at that” (129).

In “If You Can’t Find a Broom, Try a Jaguar” (129), Mina says that the writer wrote in one of his novels about an accident that happened in the same area. The narrator’s mother in the book, who drove out of the way of a truck and off the road, was in a Jaguar, and Mina identified with...