75 pages 2 hours read

Nikki Grimes

Ordinary Hazards

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2019

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Part 4-Epilogue

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 4: “1963-1966”

Part 4, Chapter 109 Summary: “The Heights”

Nikki and Bernice go from a two-story house in Brooklyn to sharing a room in a boarding house in Washington Heights. On the first night, Nikki feels claustrophobic and steps out to get some air.

Part 4, Interlude 40 Summary: “Notebook”

Nikki would like to miss the different parts of her old house in Brooklyn but cannot because of all the “ugliness” it saw.

Part 4, Chapter 110 Summary: “Materialized”

Nikki can finally see her father whenever she wants to.