They claim that all they want to do is to be allowed to work and to have a place to live. The men have been occupying the square, refusing to give their names. One evening, Richard sees a group of African men on the news. He frequently imagines the man on the lake’s bottom, trapped in limbo. Richard lives near a lake and had planned on boating on it frequently, but a man drowned months before the novel’s beginning and the thought of the man’s corpse-which has still not been found-unsettles him to the point where he does not go onto the lake. His garden and his books receive most of his attention as he adjusts to the new stage of his life. He has more time to himself than ever before and is unsure of how to use it. When the novel begins, Richard’s wife has been dead for several years and he has just left the university.
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