Chapters eleven and twelve tell more about Danielle's dad's experience in the war and more about the divorce. Danielle's mother looks upon the divorce like it never happened, and if Danielle were to ask her about her childhood, she would pretend to not remember. Her mother has decided to move on with her life, but her dad is still greatly affected by it, with drinking as the only way to drone the old feelings out.

" For a long time- even after the divorce became final- my father could not grasp that our life on Trussoni Court had ended."

Danielle talks about the first Christmas they celebrated after the divorce. The family (minus the mother) went to their uncle Gene's house. On the way home from the family dinner and such, Danielle's dad takes a wrong turn and heads toward the old house on Trussoni Court.

"When the truth hit him, he slammed on the brakes and cut the engine, leaving the truck mid-road. Folding his arms over the steering wheel, he buried his head in his hands and sobbed. We kids looked from Dad to the long empty highway, scared. We had never seen our father cry before. ..... 'Are you okay, Dad?' I asked him, touching his arm. 'Get in the house, he mumbled. 'Go on. I'm fine.' I think it was then, as I walked over the icy sidewalk, leaving my father to cry in his truck, that I began to hate my mother."

This quote shows that Danielle is more on her dad's 'side' involving the divorce. Even though her mother did hurt her dad, she must have been in a lot of pain as well during the divorce.

Chapter twelve talks more about her in Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) and about her dad during the war. Danielle is followed again by the mystery man again, and ends up even being chased. I'm not sure who this guy is yet, but I'm sure he will have an important role towards the end of the book, once we find out who is actually is. Danielle ended up having to steal a bike just to get away from the man.
The end of the chapter is about her dad searching a tunnel (he was a tunnel rat in Vietnam). He describes the tunnel, saying how it is the most elaborate one he had ever been in. The one thing about scene that effected me is when him and Goodman found the hospital ward in the tunnel. Danielle's dad finds a dying old man and he tries yelling something to him in Vietnamese. Since her dad can't understand, he kind of just stares at the man, unable to look away from his eyes. With the old man is a boy, not older than 16, who is thought to be his son. Goodman takes the young man captive and kills the old man.

"When they were almost to the surface, my father paused in the darkness, as if held back by a kind of gravity. Years later, in the dim light of Roscoe's, he would tell me that he felt a pain he hadn't felt before, the pain of something inside of himself dying. He knew he had lost part of himself underground that day. What remained climbed up to the sunlight, and to the rest of his life."

He was deeply affected by the helpless old man being killed.