Summary

Chapter 13 begins as Diana spends her first day out of rehab alone in her apartment. Diana looks at the staggering amount of obituaries and wonders why she survived Covid when so many did not, believing that “there has to be an explanation” (242). She wants to make sure that “whatever happens from here on in is worthy of this second chance I’ve been given” (242). She looks into possibilities of other jobs in art and comes across art therapy. She remembers making art from trash and sea scraps in the sand on Isabela with Beatriz. Diana realizes she was already dreaming of changing careers and reframes her time in the Galápagos: “Maybe the Galápagos wasn’t something that happened, but something that is supposed to happen” (243).

After job searching, Diana researches Covid 19 survivors. Many people write that they have shared the same feeling...