Part 8 — Chapter 6
Contains spoilers
Summary
- The narrator finds an old violin in the back of the hall closet that used to belong to Mariam.
- Clara arranges violin lessons for the narrator from a lady neighbor named Lina.
- Clara mentions that Lina came to their area in a similar way as the narrator and has lived a private life, barely leaving her farm in thirty years.
- The narrator and Clara drive up to Lina's farmhouse, which was a large gray building.
- The narrator reflects on what Zoey said to him four years ago about settling in and meeting the neighbors.
- They are greeted by Lina, who is around early sixties, same as the narrator.