![]() ![]() Or, alternately, it's a flash forward as others have mentioned. The baby seems to be part of that "incredible intelligence," a knowledge beyond earthly knowledge, voice able to reach the dead and the living at once with its cries. In this book, children as your reason to keep fighting, and she has lost hers. She's lost so much, and then she lost just as much as Fonny did, possibly more when she miscarried and had to leave her children behind in the states. (Not that I condone that decision, but I think he felt there was no other way to manage.) Fonny will be out on bail, and the woman who accused him will likely never come back so it's possible that he won't stand trial because the case will fall apart, though her life is tragic too-it seems as though doubts may have gotten to her and upended her feeling like justice might have been done. Frank has died, but he sacrificed himself to get his son's bail together, and he's sparing himself and his family the same tragedy of his imprisonment by killing himself. The cycle of birth and death, creating art and creating homes together, all this has been frustrated by circumstances. Fonny had dreamed of carving Tish before, and in this moment he was asleep with access to a kind of overlapping of consciousnesses-Tish aware of Fonny dreaming of carving her, the baby aware of the grandfather it would never know. ![]() ![]() (view spoiler) [I thought that this was a kind of dream. ![]()
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