Summary

Chapter 1 describes a sexual experience that Feyi had with a man named Milan at a Memorial Day party in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. The narration opens with the remark that Milan was the first person Feyi had “fucked since the accident” (1), and proceeds to describe the two of them having sex in a bathroom under a red lightbulb. From there, it flashes back to Feyi approaching Milan after observing him with her friend Joy, flirting with him briefly, and going to the downstairs bathroom with him. Following the aforementioned accident five years ago, Feyi had moved from Cambridge to New York, where she lived in a brownstone apartment with Joy, paying for rent with money received from life insurance and eventually renting a studio space where she worked as an artist. At the present moment in the bathroom, Feyi convinced Milan not...