The day her aunt’s parole was revoked, Norah said a strange thing. She’d been arrested at a protest – the police called it a “riot” – and Dany went to the police station to see her. The lawyer brought her into a little room, where her aunt was cuffed to a desk.
“Sometimes you have to set your pain aside,” her aunt said. “Set love aside, set anger aside, set all of it aside and just deal with some basic facts.”
Her aunt was trying to tell Dany and her sister to go and live with Antoine.
Dany looks at the facts.
Fact. Along the back fence of the prison, there are a half-dozen shipping containers, the kind that once floated into ports on enormous freighters. The day of the picnic, she wondered what those metal boxes were for.
The next day, Jasper told her.
It was an afterthought, t
