- This chapter starts off with a "history" of Japanese and Japanese Americans on the (fictional) island of San Piedro, including some background on what happened there when all Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps in 1942.
- Then we switch gears to the present, where Hatsue Miyamoto is asking to speak with her husband during the recess in the court proceedings.
- And... then we're back in the (recent) past, getting details on Hatsue's visitations to Kabuo throughout his imprisonment. Feeling any whiplash from all the time travel?
- We also learn more about Hatsue's background and life and a young girl leading up to her marriage with Kabuo.
- Then, we get some background on Hatsue's parents, Fujiko and Hisao, and how they met and got married.
- Along the way, we get a passing reference to the fact that Hatsue's first kiss was with Ishmael Chambers when they were kids. Wait, what?
- Now we're back with Hatsue and Kabuo talking in the courtroom. They are discussing and thinking about their time in Manzanar, the internment camp where they were imprisoned during the war. This is where they really got to know each other and eventually got married.
- We then hear about their wedding night in the camp, which was spent in a dorm with a bunch of other people listening nearby—er, cozy.
- Finally, we learn that, eight days after their marriage, Kabuo had enlisted in the U.S. military in order to prove his bravery and loyalty to the U.S.
- The chapter ends with a reference to Ishmael watching Hatsue with a controlled hysteria. Hmm…just what went down between those two?