How It All Goes Down
The Very Rigid Search
- Grandfather and Alex go to breakfast without Jonathan because he is a vegetarian anyway.
- When they go back to get Jonathan, he is hungry (because vegetarians do eat) but all they can get for him is a mochaccino.
- It tastes terrible to Jonathan (better or worse than Dunkin Donuts?) and Alex gets mad at him for slandering the coffee of the Ukraine.
- After that delicious breakfast, they drive all over the countryside, looking for Trachimbrod (no one knows where the heck it is) or Augustine (no one knows who the heck she is, either).
- Along the way, Grandfather reveals a small part of his past: that his father died working in fields.
- Alex and Jonathan get into a fight while asking some field workers about Augustine and Trachimbrod.
- Even though Alex tells Jonathan not to talk, he still speaks.
- After that, Alex decides to do all the work himself.
- Eventually they find a woman who, like everyone else, has never heard of Trachimbrod or Sofiowka.
- However, she does seem to recognize the woman in the photograph.
- Then she admits that they are in Trachimbrod. "You are here. I am it" (15.53).