Beartown

Peter asks if Kira thinks he is less of a man because he can’t fight. She asks if she is less of a woman because she can, and they laugh, “because they can, and because they must. They still possess that blessing” (324).

Sune goes to the Bearskin and tells Ramona that he is worried that what Kevin did will be blamed on hockey. She slaps him and yells, “Fucking men! YOU’RE the problem! Religion doesn’t fight, guns don’t kill, and you need to be very fucking clear that hockey never raped anyone!” (326).

Jeanette gets a call that the alarm has gone off again. When she goes to the school, there is water near the floor by Maya’s locker. In class the next morning, she notices that Zacharias’s hands are covered in ink and he smells like solvent. He had broken in to wash Maya’s locker, because “He knows what it’s like to be one of the people hurt, just because they can” (330).

Maya is playing her guitar, thinking that either Kevin has to die, or she does. Something about the rock going through the window changed her. She goes to Ana’s house to visit. She asks if they can take the rifles and go shoot in