[pg. 31 - 45 Summary] [Chapt. 4 Apache Women]
In the section titled "Apache Women," the author tells a story that shifts between several different time frames to illustrate her point. She describes the circumstances and decisions leading up to Tyler crashing the family car at age 16, as well as the impact it left behind. The family's emotional wounds are detailed, but the mental toll it took on Tyler seems the most profound. Tara explains that she never blamed Tyler, or anyone in the family, for the wreck. To convey her feelings about the event now, Tara shares a story of destiny that her grandmother told her when she was young—a tale about Apache women. “Of all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event,” she writes. “Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock.” Her grandmother shared this story while they were hunting for pieces of black rock, obsidian, or “Apache tears.”
