38 pages 1 hour read

Tomson Highway

The Rez Sisters

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

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Act II, Pages 88-100Act Summaries & Analyses

Act II, Pages 88-100 Summary

The women all get out of the van and look at the flat tire. They argue, and work on changing the tire. Zhaboonigan has to pee, so Marie-Adele takes her off to the side. Nanabush comes to them, and Marie-Adele has a breakdown yelling at Nanabush in his nighthawk disguise. Zhaboonigan tries to scare Nanabush off, but he knocks her down. She regresses into counting and naming. The other women come to help, and get Marie-Adele and Zhaboonigan back in the van.

Emily is designated as the driver. As she drives them toward Toronto, Marie-Adele confesses that her cancer has taken away her ability to be intimate with her husband. Pelajia tells her about a couple where one partner was dying and they were angry at each other, comparing them to Eugene and Marie-Adele. Emily tells them about a woman in her motorcycle gang, Rose, who discussed the issues in the Indigenous community and had trouble with drugs. After a fight, the motorcycle gang cruised down PCH; Rose stayed in the middle of the road, allowing a truck to hit her. Emily rode off alone after that. She confesses that Rose was her lover and Emily does not want to go back where Rose died, and so she came back to the reserve.