In chapter 22, James makes contact with Aubrey Rubenstein in the old shop in which his father took over after Fischel left. He learns more about his history of his mother and the city of Suffolk. James also learns about himself from this meeting. After the initial meeting with Rubenstein, he requests that James go to see Gerry Jaffe, Which his mother knew. James found what he was looking for which was his family’s past. He now knows that His mother and Grandmother lived very lonely and under the radar. “ My grandmother had walked around here and gazed upon this water many times, and the loneliness and agony that Hudis Shilisky felt as a jew in the lonely southern town. “ (McBride 229). This occurs to McBride rather abruptly. Moreover, James
