CHAPTER 6
I stayed with Granny a long time. It’s hard to count the years, and when I try, I’m always getting it mixed up in my head, and you already know how I’m not too good at math. That reminds me, do you think maybe math’s something like English, where I’m just doing the best I can with what I got? ’Cause if that’s the case maybe I really shoulda gotten an A on my last report card on account of me trying so hard.
Anyway, I know I was there with Granny ’least a few years ’cause that’s how long I had to go to school. Granny lived in Chongjin — I remember the name from living there so long — and it’s a big city, but I don’t expect you ever heard of it. There weren’t too much fishing in Chongjin, even though we was right there by the water, but my old teacher told me it used to be a fish
