Summary

In Chapter 19, Vanna and Amir wake in the cave and see the faint image of a lighthouse to the North. Vanna tells Amir “that’s where we’re going” (166).

She peels the dry flaking skin from his sunburn. Amir finds a copy of Zaytoon and Zaytoona, his favorite story. “Amir points to himself. ‘Zaytoon,' he says. Then he points at her. ‘Zaytoona’” (167).

They spot Colonel Kethros and his soldiers on the beach. “They head north” (168).

The children make it to the lighthouse and settle down, exhausted. Amir “finds and mouths her word for thank you, and she can sense in him the gratitude, of which she has never been the recipient of before and it feels good” (172).

In the night Vanna sees the lights of a refugee dinghy arriving on the adjacent beach.

In Chapter 20, the passengers aboard Calypso removed the body...