Notes

Chapter 3 & 4

Grandam-over-in-town

Faye forever removed and isolated herself - and her children - from her own family

Tara’s Father, Gene

Grandma-down-the-hill

“What was happening now had happened before. This was the second severing of mother and daughter. The tape was playing in a loop.”

• diversity for the family members
• Illuminati 光照派

“According to Grandma, a hundred years ago a tribe of Apaches had fought the U.S. Cavalry on those faded rocks. The tribe was outnumbered: the battle lost, the war over. All that was left to do was wait to die. Soon after the battle began, the warriors became trapped on a ledge. Unwilling to suffer a humiliating defeat, cut down one by one as they tried to break through the cavalry, they mounted their horses and charged off the face of the mountain. When the Apache women found their broken bodies on the rocks below, they cried huge, desperate tears, which turned to stone when they touched the earth.”

Chapter 4

“Me, I never blamed anyone for the accident, least of all Tyler. It was just one of those things. A decade later my understanding would shift, part of my heavy swing into adulthood, and after that the accident would always make me think of the Apache women, and of all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock.”

Next session

• Homework: Finish Chapter 5 & 6
• Host Volunteer: Shuuka

Updated: 14 May, 2021
Created: 12 May, 2021