How It All Goes Down
- Natasha remembers when her father got his role in A Raisin in the Sun.
- He made a big show of it, picking up dinner and serving it to them himself on paper plates, then ceremoniously presenting each of them with a ticket for "dessert."
- In that moment, she missed the way things used to be with her dad.
- Her mom told him to keep her ticket. Dad said she didn't mean it, but she did.
- Natasha and Peter went to the show and sat in the first row.
- She wishes she could say he wasn't good, but it wouldn't be true. "He was excellent. He was transcendent. He belonged on that stage more than he's ever belonged with us" (216).