Bone Gap

Finn reads material Petey gave him about face blindness. He feels validated and wants to show it to people, but at the same time, he doesn’t feel better—he knows he’ll never grow out of his condition and feels that something will always be wrong with him. It also doesn’t undo the fact that Roza is gone.

Sean comes home. They are both angry with each other. Finn tries to talk to Sean about Roza, but Sean targets Petey. Finn gets angry and punches Sean. Finn goes to Charlie’s house since that’s the last place he saw Roza’s kidnapper.

Charlie chronicles his long, strange, and often sad life. He describes the loves he’s had, his children, and grandchildren. He had a horse he loved with all his heart, Thunder, who just kept getting thinner and weaker. He realized, too late, that he, Charlie, was color blind; he had been running the horse way too far to the wrong color marker every day. Charlie came to Bone Gap to escape heartache and met Sally. They had a child and were together for thirty-six years before she died. Then, Roza showed up, and he loved her. Originally from Poland himself, he was excited to speak Polish with her.