Chapter 38

White Mike is in his memories. He remembers a girl named Alice that lived on Long Island when he did,too. They sat behind the boathouse and Alice smoked some cigarettes while they disgussed about "the firsts", first time she tried weed, got drunk, drove, got sex. She asked Mike why he doesn't drink. He said he wouldn know.

Now he's on Eighty-sixth street to buy the Plague by Camus.