Maggie and Kurt live on a farm with two farmhands, but are still feeling the void after their daughter has left home.
A ship caught fire and that is apparently intertwined in the story.
For six months, he couldn't sleep. To cope, the Narrator starts attending support groups for various terminal illnesses and conditions. There he meets Marla Singer, who falls in love with both Tyler Durden and the Narrator. After the Narrator's flat blows up, he moves in with Tyler Durden and starts a fight club that spirals out of control.
In Zimbabwe, we meet Tambudzai who has grown up in a rural village, and is now living in a hostel. She bounces around life, coming and going, but her past seems to haunt her. Facing discrimination and undergoing breakdowns, Tambudzai finding stability hard to come by.
