bigotry-and-prejudice

The chapter follows Horny Hake, a disabled Unitarian minister with a complex identity shaped by his traumatic childhood in a war-torn kibbutz and his mixed feelings about his Jewish and Arab heritage. During a tense bus and train journey through a polluted, crime-ridden America, he encounters a bigoted woman and a mysterious young woman who warns him of danger, highlighting the social and political tensions underlying his personal struggles.