![]() ![]() Albertine is upset that her mother didn't tell her sooner: the letter arrived a week after June's death. She receives a letter from her mother Zelda, and learns in this way that June went missing in a storm and has died. At the time of the narration, she is a young medical student in Fargo. A heavy snowstorm falls as she is walking across open ranchland.Īlbertine Johnson narrates this chapter in the first person. ![]() June extricates herself from the car and begins to walk home. Yet before they can have sex, he falls asleep. He stops on a country road, turns on the heat, and begins to undress her. She hopes that this man will be "different," but after a transcendent moment, she realizes that even if he is not, she will still manage to "get through this again." She is uncomfortable in her itchy ripped shirt, which she has hidden under a jacket from her son, King. ![]() He introduces himself as Andy, a mud engineer.Īndy and June leave the first bar and go to another one down the street. June has no money left, except her funds for a bus ticket back to her reservation, and she decides to forgo the bus in favor of spending time with this man. The man orders June a beer and peels colored eggs for her to eat. She walks into the Rigger Bar after seeing an intriguing man sitting near its window. June Kashpaw is in Williston, North Dakota, on the Saturday before Easter. ![]()
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