Hazel summarizes the plot of “An Imperial
Affliction”. The narrator is a girl named Anna, who develops blood
cancer. Anna lives together with her mother, a one-eyed tulip
obsessed gardener and an allegedly rich figure called The Dutch Tulip
Man.
The book ends in the middle of a sentence and leave
Hazel with a lot of questions. Setting the book aside, Hazel calls
Augustus, who is busy consoling the recently dumped Isaac.
Augustus invites Hazel over and she arrives to find
the boys playing video games. Isaac is distraught. Suddenly Isaac
snaps and attacks the pillows. Augustus points out that pillows,
unlike basketball trophies, are unbreakable and coaxes Isaac into
smashing all the trophies.
