The narrator/protagonist describes in detail a memory from when she was a young teenager (she is 16 in the novel and this took place a few years earlier) where a friend of her father (who is possibly a cousin) got her high on hallucinogenic drugs and then raped her while she was inebriated. At one point, when the narrator/protagonist is forced to encounter the man who raped her, he jokes about the encounter and implies that she has come back to him to 'have sex' again. Sexual harassment of women of all ages occurs throughout the novel.