The Wakatsuki family begins to fragment as older members take meager money-making jobs in the camp, and Jeanne turns to peer activities and people wanting entertainment. Lacking home religious instruction, she is attracted to a new type of stability: nuns who run a children's village. Gruesome stories of Christian saints and martyrs keep Jeanne interested in the local chapel, which is a mile from her barracks. Walking through 100 degree heat brings on sunstroke, which keeps her in bed for a week. In September 1942, Papa Ko, looking ten years older, returns from Fort Lincoln, a prison southeast of Bismark, North Dakota. Chapter 7 reconstructs the interrogations that initiated Ko's imprisonment.
