- Asher returns home and stays with his parents. Anna Schaeffer tells him he's going to have another gallery show soon, and that his crucifixion paintings—Brooklyn Crucifixion I and Brooklyn Crucifixion II—will be very prominently featured.
- To make matters even more awkward, the show isn't going to have any nudes in it, so his parents can technically go. But if they do go, it'll a perfect storm of Sharknado proportions.
- Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Asher has fever-dreams about his mythic ancestor. He visits Jacob Kahn, who is seriously ill and may not recover. Jacob Kahn wishes him luck with his show, and assures him that he shouldn't be worried. Asher, who is pretty bad at not worrying, doesn't take this advice.
- Asher's show is being covered by Time and Newsweek: when he shows up in Anna Schaeffer's gallery, he might as well be Mick Jagger. Everyone's congratulating him and calling him a genius, etc.
- Then his parents show up. They've never been to an art show before, and need Asher to help them around. He's basically stuck showing them around, and when they finally do see Brooklyn Crucifixion I and II, they stomp out of the room and basically disown him.
- The book ends with the Rabbi asking Asher to leave the Ladover community in Brooklyn and live somewhere else. Asher barely has a relationship with his father, and he and his mother speak pretty sparsely.
- He leaves home—and his community, his identity— just as he's becoming a huge international star in the art world.