BE Ch 12 summary

[Joseph Tracy]

Downtown to see Shawn the emotherapist, she tells him Horst is back, he asks ”back?” she doesn’t know,  ends up sitting quiet for session.

Going uptown, Maxine gets a weird slow ride with an anti-semitic cabbie who may be about to lose his license, she doesn’t like park ave.

 She meets Tallis in  upper east side in enormous house after passing through boring rooms with expensive but uniterestingly collected art. Tallis says Gabe has weird demands, and they got to know each other at Carnegie Mellon when he was using her room’s computer as refuge from bagpiper, but they get along. Tallis says she and her mother hate each other, and she hated fighting between her parents. She tells how March is accusing Gabriel Ice of financial misbehavior larger than Iran Contra. Tallis  either is or is playing the ditz and doesn’t really want to know if finances at hashslingerz are clean Gabe Ice is evasive about it.  

Max meets March near local school. March tells a recent story  of  when a rude walker passed her and knocked her shopping bag on the street and she kicked the groceries and shouted she hated NY. Then another stranger asked why she didn’t leave, and she realized it was only because of Tallis and her grandson. March tells her a little about  ex, Sidney,  who is sax player with young girlfriend.Max says Tallis not about to blow whistle on Ice. March says prenup gives Ice ownership of Tallis. From intuition and observation Maxine suspects Tallis may have boyfriend which March wouldn’t mind.

March breaks conversation to greet grandson, Kennedy, who rushes to hug her, tells her his school troubles, she gives him pokemon cards. 
“You’re gonna get Grandma of the Year, you don’t watch out.” 
“Hey,” March determined to be a tough guy, “Pokémon, what do I know? some West Indian proctologist, right?”