Obasan Chapter 5 Summary

  • It's past midnight. Grandma's wandering around the attic with a flashlight, looking for something. We don't know what. She pushes over magazines, albums, and ID cards, but she still doesn't find it.
  • Meanwhile, Naomi is bored. There are spiders in the attic and Naomi shines her flashlight to see them, but she ends up revealing just how disgusting the attic really is. Gross. Let's just get out of here.
  • But when Obasan's flashlight falls on an old patchwork quilt, Naomi remembers something. She had a mom. She disappeared. What happened? Just like with Uncle, Obasan doesn't answer Naomi when she asks.
  • By now Obasan doesn't even remember why she came up here. Naomi leads her back to her room. She falls asleep.