Dirt Music

Part 4 is from Georgie’s perspective as her life without Lu falls into the semblance of normalcy. Georgie is cooking risotto in a bikini when Jim takes a call from a distant cousin. Georgie thought he had no family and he doesn’t explain. Their rekindled affection is evident in their mannerisms as they go about their lives.

Georgie gets an email from her sister Jude but doesn’t act on it. She swims out to where Jim’s sons Josh and Brad are paddling around the lagoon in their dingy, and fishes with them. It is then that she realizes the depression she’s been under for the last six months and resolves to do better.

She throws out her back and the boys take care of her until they lose interest. Jim drops her off at Rachel’s, who helps with her back but asks why she’s stayed with Jim, who has a violent past. Rachel shares a fond memory of Lu singing to Bird in a parking lot, and how much she liked Lu as a person, a surprise given his family’s legacy as the town’s cursed, impoverished musicians.

Rachel explains that Shover McDougall recently put up a national flag in response to Beaver’s Vietnamese wife.