Part 8 — Chapter 6

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.