Part II: Mohawk Fair

Having finished Part II, I really like this book so far. Jenny is out of rehab, and although she isn’t living in her old house, she and Ned are once again living together in a new house. Sam has been in and out of trouble, mostly financially, only once with the law. Sam has left town once again, not to be seen for ten years. Claude and Ned are friends again and Ned seems to be Claude’s only friend. Ned had saved up a lot of money to buy himself a car, but Sam took it when he needed help getting himself out of jail. In this section the pool table was mentioned, which has some relation, I’m not sure what yet, to the title of the book. Sam gets Ned a pool table for the apartment and Ned gets really good at playing pool. Ned sees Tria once more. However, when Jack Ward dies of a heart attack, and Ned goes to the Ward house for the viewing, he can’t bear to see Tria so upset and he leaves without saying hello. Ned is now entering high school, but Tria doesn’t attend the same school – she goes to a public school in Connecticut. This book is really interesting to me so far, so I’m anxious to see what happens in the next section.