Ari and Dante discuss that they’re budding intellectuals, and Dante says he’s trying to not be ashamed. Ari learns that Dad studied art before he went to Vietnam. A few days later, Dante introduces himself to Mom and Dad, and gives Dad a book of Mexican art. Dante cleans his room while Ari reads poetry, which Ari is surprised to enjoy. Quintana is “inscrutable.” Ari doesn’t know what the word means, but he thinks that Dad is inscrutable too. Quintana is happy, open, and inquisitive, but Dante says that Mrs. After a few swimming lessons, Dante introduces Ari to his parents. A skinny and squeaky boy named Dante offers to teach Ari to swim. At the pool, Ari doesn’t know how to swim and hates the sexist lifeguards. Ari doesn’t know what crime Bernardo committed. On the walk there, he thinks about how Vietnam changed Dad, and how Dad won’t talk about Vietnam or Ari’s older brother, Bernardo, who’s in prison. In order to escape Mom’s church friends, Ari goes to the pool. Fifteen-year-old Ari wakes up on the first day of summer vacation feeling miserable.
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